The Member of Parliament (MP) for Prescott-Russell-Cumberland is one of the MP’s supporting a bill to eliminate Daylight Savings Time in Canada and the twice-yearly clock change most Canadians are accustomed to.
On Thursday, October 2, Giovanna Mingarelli was one of the members of the MP’s who appeared with Orléans MP Marie-France Lalonde who announced she will table a private member’s bill in the House of Commons to abolish Daylight Savings Time in Canada. Lalonde and Mingarelli are both Liberal MPs, but private member’s bills are introduced by individual MP’s and are not part of the government or a party’s agenda.
“This is an important step toward starting a pan-Canadian conversation about adopting a single, fixed time year-round. It’s time we modernize this tradition and prioritize consistency and well-being,” Mingarelli said in a social media post.
Saskatchewan and Yukon are currently the only places in Canada that do not use Daylight Savings Time.
If the bill is adopted by the House of Commons, it would still have to be adopted by the Senate and then given Royal Assent by the Governor General to become law. On Sunday, November 2, Canadians in most parts of the country will reset their clocks one hour back to regular Standard Time for the winter months.
