About time -NDP MP’s bill to make Remembrance Day a national statutory holiday gets s

Sal

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What happened to Thanksgiving and Boxing Day?

they are not stats in all provinces...a Stat means everything but essential services is closed...unless you are designated a tourist area in which case you may remain open and be fine free, but you don't have to be even if the mall is open they can not as a mall force the retailer to participate

Boxing Day is a huge shopping day, although less and less so for certain retailers as time moves forward...big ticket items still do well
 

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I am just confirming with Ger is all.
I know.

they are not stats in all provinces...a Stat means everything but essential services is closed...unless you are designated a tourist area in which case you may remain open and be fine free, but you don't have to be even if the mall is open they can not as a mall force the retailer to participate
Because the retailer entered, willingly and freely, into an agreement with the mall.
 

gerryh

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What they died for- Are you referring to freedom?
supposedly. Considering your attitude and a few others I'd say we were sold a load of horseshyte, because it obviously want about freedom.
 

Sal

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glad you are in harmony there

supposedly. Considering your attitude and a few others I'd say we were sold a load of horseshyte, because it obviously want about freedom.

you don't have a clue about anyone's opinion, only the ones you assume and leap to
 

CDNBear

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yes both you and gerry have made your opinion quite clear on this matter
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you don't have a clue about anyone's opinion, only the ones you assume and leap to
Ummm, it's funny you should say that, after saying the above. Which of course is nonsense. It isn't an opinion. It's a fact. No body forced the retailer to enter into a contract with a mall that has rules likely outlined in the contract.
 
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Sal

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Ummm, it's funny you should that, after saying the above. Which of course is nonsense. It isn't an opinion. It's a fact. No body forced the retailer to enter into a contract with a mall that has rules likely outlined in the contract.
yup, and when they make it a stat and all of the malls are closed the two of you will still be wrong on whether or not the stores will be closed or open....there are already days when the malls are closed...I get that the two of you are freedom fighters for the mall owners....that's nice but the malls still are closed on certain days and Remembrance Day will be added to the list

one more read, and it's a go
 

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glad you are in harmony there



you don't have a clue about anyone's opinion, only the ones you assume and leap to


I'm not assuming anything. You all have made yourselves quite clear. Freedom applies to you and those that think like you only.
 

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Why do you think they make any holidays stat holidays?

To give everybody a day off. If I saw any evidence that the cenotaphs would fill up and the malls would empty just because it was a stat then I could get behind the idea. As it stands I'd prefer a day off in the summer.

BTW, I almost always go to the cenotaph and lay a wreath as a representative of the fire department. I'm one of the few that gets the day off. It will be a pretty quiet place on Tuesday (which is nothing unusual)....at least a lot quieter than the malls.
 

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And they died for????????????????

In the case of Canada, it was to prove that even though they were effectively independent, they still retained their slavish devotion to the Shiny Hat.

In the case of the U.S., it was an attempt to prove we really, really were one of the big boys.
 

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yup, and when they make it a stat and all of the malls are closed the two of you will still be wrong on whether or not the stores will be closed or open....there are already days when the malls are closed...I get that the two of you are freedom fighters for the mall owners....that's nice but the malls still are closed on certain days and Remembrance Day will be added to the list

one more read, and it's a go
Are you really as daft as your post would make you out to be? Because I'm actually left with the compulsion to just say "F*ck you're dumb", seriously.
 

gerryh

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And they died for????????????????




nothing.

BTW, making it a stat will not force anyone to close their store. I am not against or for making it a stat. I am against forcing people to do what YOU want them to do and to THINK what you want them to think.

Are you really as daft as your post would make you out to be? Because I'm actually left with the compulsion to just say "F*ck you're dumb", seriously.



Yes, she is.
 

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nothing.

BTW, making it a stat will not force anyone to close their store. I am not against or for making it a stat. I am against forcing people to do what YOU want them to do and to THINK what you want them to think.

So you just continue to try and force people to think the way you do in regards to remembrance day and don't worry about the fact that you are a HUGE hypocrite and are actually demeaning what these "men" died for.

So how am I demeaning them? As you believe they died for nothing. Then how can I demean nothing?
How am I forcing anyone to do something when I voice my opinion?
 

Sal

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Are you really as daft as your post would make you out to be? Because I'm actually left with the compulsion to just say "F*ck you're dumb", seriously.

ew there's a shocker

compulsion, obsession, inability to comprehend and reason through a debate without name calling, lack of restraint or all of those and more, it's okay, I understand...you go for it Bear

hope it helps