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Originally Posted by Addick
The fact that it is a national holiday has a lot to do with it! Let's go back to what you said:
Remembrance Day is a day that the Federal government selected to remember all Canadians who died in a war that the nation supported. Therefore, they can do things that can be associated with supporting the war as they had a mandate to. The City of Calgary on the other hand has no such mandate, but they can support the members of the troops. In this case, doing so through financial support is the best method.
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Holy cow....
It is not about the holiday and who has the authority to delcare it as such. It was about the suggestion that just showing ones respect by simply waving a flag, having a moment of silence or putting a sticker on your vehcile amounts to nothing as it is laziness.....according to him it isn't even worth doing unless you send money to the families......he says that is way more meaningful. So...if that is way more meaning ful...lets just scrap Remeberance day and send all the money that we use on that event to the families.....that would be much more meaingful to them....
