It is only an amendment to the Holidays Act. The bill only amends the federal legislation.
Please allow me to switch to English.
It's just to make sure I'm being perfectly clear.
It changes the statute that governs holidays at the federal level, which is the Holidays Act, and it adds the word “legal”.
There is some question about whether that has any actual legal impact, because it doesn't change anything substantively for any employees at the federal level. In response to Mr. Nantel's question, it has nothing to do with changing the contract that somebody would have, for example, as an employee at a bank. It doesn't have any substantive change. All it's doing is confirming, for example, the contracts that are already in place through collective agreements with federal employees. It would have no substantive change with regard to that. It's a gesture that some could call symbolic, but I see it as actually raising the profile and putting it in the same consistent wording as Canada Day.