Most of us will enjoy well enough this sixth Family Day. At the South Bayview Bulldog, we will be cleaning out drawers and be cheerful for the chance. News organizations, sensing the challenge of the weather, have been busy asking people what they will do. Young bloods out on the skating rinks promise solemnly to spend time with mom and dad. This is really not fair. No one, not even Premier Dad (now exiled to Ottawa) expected this to be much more than another day off. Mr. McGuinty was a near caricature of himself when he announced this holiday in 2008 and then waxed on about how he had always wished that he had spent more time with his father. The idea of a mid-winter long weekend was not new when the Liberals cooked up Family Day. Having run out of warm weather long weekends with which to gift voters, governments had long pondered a mid-winter break. Then they thought about the weather and perhaps the lost productivity and decided to forget it.
