When the Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty started Family Day in 2008, I thought it was a joke. Of course, I felt the same about the song title "When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". It never made much sense to me.
Family Day originated in Alberta in 1990, but it took years for other provinces to adopt this
statutory
holiday. We have eight holidays a year in Canada compared to Japan's 16.
Having always been self-employed or working in a family business, I wondered what I was going to do on Family Day. So I worked...and still do.
I can remember the big fight to keep stores open on Sunday.
