Bill 55 explained in plain English
Remembrance Week Act, 2016
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Remembrance Week Act, 2016, establishes Remembrance Week from November 5th to 11th and mandates a two-minute silence on Remembrance Day, while repealing the previous Remembrance Day Observance Act, 1997.
This Act proclaims the seven-day period from November 5th to November 11th each year as "Remembrance Week". It also calls for the people of Ontario to observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day (November 11th) to honour those who died serving their country. The Act repeals the Remembrance Day Observance Act, 1997.
- Proclaims the week of November 5th to November 11th each year as Remembrance Week.
- Requires people in Ontario to observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day.
- Repeals the Remembrance Day Observance Act, 1997.
- People in Ontario
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The people of Ontario are to pause and observe two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. on Remembrance Day in honour of those who died serving their country.
- The Act received Royal Assent on November 2, 2016, and came into force on that day.
- The Act states that the two minutes of silence can only be achieved through voluntary observance and collective desire to remember, indicating no enforcement mechanism for the silence itself.
The previous law regarding the observance of Remembrance Day is cancelled and replaced by this new Act.
Source: Section 3
The Act came into effect on the day it received Royal Assent.
Source: Section 4
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