Dear Editor:

Wikipedia: Family Day is the name of a public holiday in South Africa, in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan, and (as “Family & Community Day”) in the Australian Capital Territory. In Ontario, Family Day falls on the third Monday of February, which is today

I wish you the best of happiness on this day.

On a more cynical note, While Primier McGuinty is busy creating new traditions such as Family Day, he is busy tearing down our existing traditions, such as removing the Lord’s Prayer from our legislature and inventing strange plants such as “Holiday Trees”. As someone just said on the radio, we should be trying to include other people traditions in our society, rather than allowing our politicians and bureaucrats to wipe out our own traditions.

The purpose of these emails is to prove that the sky will NOT fall if we should inadvertently wish someone “HAPPY RAMADAN”, “HAPPY HANUKKAH” or “MERRY CHRISTMAS” (Even though it is none of those days today, I still have the right to say it, and NOBODY has the right to be offended.) To include everyone in everyone else’s traditions, to counteract the policies of exclusion which are currently practiced by most levels of government, schools, AND EVEN JUDGES in their misguided attempts to be “inclusive”. (Making up silly words like “Holiday Tree” for example, instead of using the correct Canadian term “Christmas Tree”.)

Sincerely,
Robin Browne
Ottawa, Ontario

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