National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is Sept. 30, but some provinces won't make it a stat holiday
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On Sept. 30, federal offices, banks and post offices will be closed to mark the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, but Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario have said they’re not officially observing the day as a paid day off.
On Sept. 30, federal offices, banks and post offices will be closed to mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
"The idea is really to set aside a day that we honour all the children who survived residential schools, as well as honour and recognize those who did not return," Brenda Gunn, academic and research director at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, told CTV National News.
The new federal statutory holiday coincides with Orange Shirt Day, which was started in 2013 as a way to honour Indigenous children and educate Canadians about the impact the residential school system had on Indigenous communities.
Creating such a federal holiday was one of the 94 calls to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission back in 2015.
