When is “Canada Day”? How about “New Year’s Day” or “Christmas”? Like all good legal questions, the answer, it would appear, is “it depends.”
Pursuant to subsection 1(1) of the Employment Standards Act, 2000 the following days are designated as “public holidays”, to which certain rights and obligations apply:
- New Year’s Day.
- Family Day, being the third Monday in February.
- Good Friday.
- Victoria Day.
- Canada Day.
- Labour Day.
- Thanksgiving Day.
- Christmas Day.
- December 26.
Of those, the only calendar days that one could derive with any certainty (and without knowledge of what those days mean) are "Family Day" and December 26.
So when is “Canada Day” anyway?
