Sarnia's Wilma McNeill has renewed hope and confidence that Remembrance Day will be declared a legal holiday.
A Liberal MP's private members bill passed second reading last December and is now being studied at the Canadian Heritage Committee before a final vote.
McNeill says she's been advocating for the designation for 27 years now.
"My husband had six brothers and a sister in the war, I had a brother in the war and I've always felt the veterans deserved the proper honour for a day," says McNeill.
McNeill says she knows everyone won't go to the cenotaph on November 11, but says not everyone celebrates Christmas either and they still get the day off.
Even if Nova Scotia MP Colin Fraser's bill passes in Parliament, provinces where November 11 is currently not a holiday -- namely Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Manitoba -- would have to change their individual labour codes.
