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Tristin Hopper: Poilievre says there are too many ‘heritage months’ in Canada. There are 17

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At a B.C. town hall last week, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said there are too many federally recognized heritage months, and that it’s “kind of getting hard to keep track of which month is for what cause or for what group.”

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The spur for the question appears to have been a Liberal MP’s recent attempt to have July declared as Somali Heritage Month.

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In reply, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani sponsored a petition for Canada to never declare another heritage month ever again.

“End the tokenism practice of recognizing a day or month in commemoration of any ethnic or heritage group; and celebrate Canadians for the sake of being Canadian not based on ethnicity or ancestry,” reads the text.

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