I don't think you can dictate what people will do with such a thing as Remembrance Day, but you can encourage them. I think it would be much more acceptable to all provinces if somehow in this act you could.... I understand that now you can't dictate to the provinces, but perhaps there's some way of getting the message over. An hour off, companies can afford. Small businesses could even close down for an hour, if they so wish, or have five or 10 minutes of silence within the confines of their business.
I'm quite sure that if you make it so that all the provinces, if possible, take a day off, it would be counterproductive to the spirit of getting to that cenotaph, to thinking about what it's all really about. People would drift away, left to their own devices. Getting the message over to businesses, getting the message over to churches, particularly to the education systems, is a challenge that has to be met if we want this thing to work properly, and with true depth of feeling, and not let it be another Canada Day, Victoria Day, or even Simcoe Day. They have that on the first Monday in August in Ontario. He was famous when it started, but now there's no respect at all, and he was a great leader.
We have to be very careful how we handle this thing. The spirit that drives people is an important thing.