Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to thank you all for being here. This is an important issue. It goes to the psyche of what it is to be Canadian and what it is to remember.
There is a lot of confusion around it, obviously—legal, statutory, what one province does, what another province does. I'll just tell you what we do in Alberta. In Alberta it is a statutory holiday, but the week before, the schools do full-blown ceremonies and kids attend. On the actual day, even though it's a statutory holiday, I can tell you, speaking only for Edmonton, that the ceremonies are packed. The Butterdome at the U of A is the big one in Edmonton. There are 6,000 or 7,000 people there—kids, parents, veterans, the whole nine yards. As usual in Canada, I think we do things 13 different ways sometimes, or most times.
Comrade White, given that now there are all these different practices across the country, how would this bill change it one way or another?