Poilievre says there are too many ‘heritage months’ in Canada. There are 17

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But particularly over the last decade, special days have been added to virtually every week in the Canadian calendar, ranging from Human Rights Day (December 10), to National Day of Observance for COVID-19 (March 11) to Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (July 28), which marks the forced 1750s removal of Acadians from the Maritimes.

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As to which group gets the most days, Indigenous Canadians get six. There’s National Ribbon Skirt Day, National Indigenous Languages Day, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Indigenous Veterans Day, Red Dress Day, and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

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In second place, it’s a tie between the military and transgender people, with four each.

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While for transgendered Canadians, there is International Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Day of Remembrance and International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia and. There’s also the International Day of Pink, which an official Government of Canada write-up describes as a day of action against “transphobia and transmisogyny.”

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Transgender Day of Remembrance is not only held shortly after conventional Remembrance Day, but it’s also the only day in the calendar to share billing with another calendar day, as November 20 was already National Child Day.

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Altogether, there are now just 20 days, all of them in December, in which the Government of Canada isn’t officially commemorating something.

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On December 10, the federally recognized 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence comes to an end, and Tamil Heritage Month doesn’t begin until January 1.

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In the interim there is only the Anniversary of the Statute of Westminster, which is marked on December 11.

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