TORONTO — The Ontario Liberal Party will host a Canada Day picnic celebration on the grounds of the provincial legislature on Monday after the Progressive Conservative government cancelled the 52-year-old event. The so-called “People’s Picnic,” spearheaded by Toronto MPP Mitzie Hunter, will take place at Queen’s Park from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.“Nobody cancels Canada Day,” Hunter said. The event had been running since 1967, and traditionally featured 21-gun military gun salutes, musicians and other forms of entertainment. Earlier this week, Ford officials said it costed between $300,000 to $400,000 or more to run the traditional Canada Day party at the legislature. She admitted the “People’s Picnic” will be a “scaled back version” of the original Canada Day event, as the party had less than two weeks to prepare, but that anything is better than nothing.

Source: National Post June 30, 2019 16:13 UTC