Holiday Blunder Wonder

I can't believe that Dalton McGuinty managed to pick a Monday in February for Family Day that is a) not the Monday after the Super Bowl, b) not the Monday that the NHL trade deadline is most likely to fall on, and c) not the Monday that most closely corresponds to Valentine's Day. Instead he picks the Monday that falls on reading week. What a dick.

It almost makes me believe that there is a powerful post-secondary education lobby made up of evil university administrators that want students to suffer as much boredom in classes as possible. These are the same administrators that prefer to hire professors that blather and pontificate on inane student questions instead of actually teaching something.

To make matters worse, employers can reinstate work on any non-statutory holidays that employees may have already been enjoying to keep the number of annual statutory holidays at nine, which usually means workers lose the "Civic Holiday" at the start of August. When McGunity made a 2007 campaign promise to put a statutory holiday in February, I don't think the average voter interpreted that to mean that they were giving up a prime August long weekend for one of the shittiest Mondays of the year.

And you would think that McGuinty would at least put a holiday called "Family Day" during "National Family Week" in October, but no, that would make too much sense. Instead he decided to copy Alberta and Saskatchewan which is the inter-provincial equivalent to seeing a country bumpkin humping his cousin on the back of a rumbling snowmobile leaking oil and thinking, "Gee, that looks like fun."