‘Happy March Holiday Season’ Instead of Easter: Veterans Affairs Explains Decision Behind Greeting
The commission wrote in an October discussion paper that “statutory holidays related to Christianity, including Christmas and Easter,” represent an “obvious example” of “systemic religious discrimination”
The minister of Veterans Affairs says her department didn’t wish a Happy Easter to veterans and serving members of the military on Good Friday because there were other holidays during the month of March.
“Given all the holidays being celebrated over the month of March, including Easter, a decision was made to acknowledge all those celebrating a holiday in the month of March,” Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said in the House of Commons on May 24. ---More...
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