It turns out that the energy-saving benefits of DST were wildly overstated, and there is a noticeable price in public health when you inflict an hour's worth of jet lag on the entire population twice a year. ISTR that traffic accidents and fatalities spike after each time change, but particularly in the spring when people are short an hour's sleep.
That said, it's more or less looney tunes for the NDP to propose dumping DST unilaterally. I'd like to see it scrapped continent-wide all in one go – which would take time to coordinate, but would prevent all kinds of chaos.
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