Thank you very much, Mr. Sullivan, and your staff for all the work you do. It's great to see.
One of your focuses this year is youth. That leads me to my question.
In my travels this summer, I found out something that was kind of disturbing. Remembrance Day is not a federal statutory holiday across the country. In my province, it is a statutory holiday. I just assumed that it was national, that across the entire country it was a statutory holiday.
I was speaking to my cousin in Toronto. She runs a day care, and she says that the schools are actually open on Remembrance Day. I find that a bit bizarre. In my province, everything is shut down.
This leads me to ask, what's the history behind this? Has the department pushed to make it a statutory holiday? Is there something in the works? Can you give me some history behind that? And how could we as a committee or as a Parliament perhaps push that issue a little more?
This is mainly for the youth; you have to take the time to pause. I remember the video we saw when we were in Charlottetown. That whole video sort of stuck with me, with the person shopping on that day. It sort of tied everything together. I was amazed by it.