‘Happy March Holiday Season’ Instead of Easter: Veterans Affairs Explains Decision Behind Greeting

Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence Ginette Petitpas Taylor speaks in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 31, 2024. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

The minister of Veterans Affairs says her department didn’t wish a Happy Easter to veterans and serving members of the military on Good Friday because there were other holidays during the month of March.

“Given all the holidays being celebrated over the month of March, including Easter, a decision was made to acknowledge all those celebrating a holiday in the month of March,” Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor said in the House of Commons on May 24.