Restaurants Open on July 1/Canada Day/Moving Day?

[Doc Holliday]

A few years ago, July 1, 2007, to be exact, I ran into a problem that made me aware of this holiday. I assumed restaurants would be open everywhere - it was the middle of Jazz Festival, for Pete's sake. You don't throw a Festival and then shut down. But that day I called a few restaurants downtown near the Omni, where I was then staying, and was shocked to hear that they were closed because of "Canada Day" or "Moving Day." Honestly, I was shocked, and I was pissed. I was pissed because it was the middle of the fucking Jazz Festival, downtown Montreal was brimming with tourists, and you are telling me restaurants are closing, leaving all those tourists and their dates to fend for themselves? It was not making any sense to me.

Do you remember on which day of the week July 1st happened to be on in 2007?

 

[Mod 11]

Thread cleaned. The question is about whatever restaurants are open on July 1st, not about the political reason to celebrate or not.

Thread nettoyé. La question est pour savoir si les restos sont ouvert ou non le 1er juillet, pas pour discuter les raisons politiques de célébrer ou non.

Any further political discussion in this thread will be deleted and the posters suspended for a few days.

Toutes autres discussions politiques dans ce thread seront effacées et les auteurs suspendu pour quelques jours.

 

[bond_james_bond]

Upon doing some research, it seems there are clearly differences between Canada and the US, with regards to labor law.

In the US, most states, along with federal law, place no restrictions on employers other than that the employees are paid for the time they worked. There is no requirement that employees get any holidays off, and there is no requirement that employees get paid extra for working on holidays.

In Quebec, either holiday pay, or a compensatory day must be offered, if the employee works on a statutory holiday. This is in addition to the employee's normal wages for that day.

So ... this may affect a business' decision to remain open on a holiday, and why businesses remain open more so in the US, than in Quebec.

http://www.rhdcc-hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/labour/labour_law/esl/sta_quebec.shtml

 

[Mauser]

I sort of remember everything was open last year during Canada Day.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I was just told a former merbite was seen thrown into a cruiser with handcuffs on because he threw a fit since he couldn't find a restaurant open in Mtl today.

 

[Special K]

I was just told a former merbite was seen thrown into a cruiser with handcuffs on because he threw a fit since he couldn't find a restaurant open in Mtl today.

His hot 4 hour dinner date was left standing on the sidewalk! At least she requested the envelope before they went in search of a resto.

 

[Special K]

thanks for a great meal followed by hot sex, beav.

This pretty much says it all! Hope you boys had fun!! ;-)