Ontario won’t support making Truth and Reconciliation Day a holiday for now: minister

November 28, 2024

Premier Doug Ford’s government will not support a New Democrat’s bill to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province, the Indigenous affairs minister said Thursday. But Greg Rickford left some wiggle room to declare the day a holiday in the future. “We are not prepared to support a holiday for now,” he said in an interview…