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RSS FeedsFor Dalton McGuinty, Family Day is a political masterstroke, and a personal heartache
(The Star Movies)

 
 

18 february 2018 15:27:31

 
For Dalton McGuinty, Family Day is a political masterstroke, and a personal heartache
(The Star Movies)
 


A statutory holiday on the third Monday of February, to break up the long, wintry slog from New Year’s to Easter, was almost a throwaway line in the Ontario Liberal campaign platform for the 2007 election.Then-premier Dalton McGuinty said it was intended to provide some relief from the hectic, just-in-time lifestyle of jobs, commuting, and all the activities of child-rearing that so many families were leading.“I wanted a day for families to be together,” he told the Star last week. “It seems most of the forces in life pull us apart. Family Day is about giving us time together.”It was not entirely coincidental that such thoughts were on his mind.By 2007, McGuinty had lost his own father, the namesake and predecessor as MPP for Ottawa South who died suddenly at just 63 while shovelling snow. His own four children were almost grown.“I remember holding my own kids in my arms when they were born,” he told the Star. “It seems all I did was blink and they had grown up and left our home. We can’t get those times back. “That’s what makes them so precious.”Ten years on, the man whose government gave Ontario Family Day in 2008 is facing his first with a heart-sized absence in his own.Elizabeth McGuinty, matriarch of a formidable clan of Ottawa politicians, lawyers and educators, mother of the former premier, died Feb. 3 at 88.At her funeral last week, Betty McGuinty was eulogized by her eldest son, who in government frequently quoted his mother’s life-earned wisdom.“She lived a full, rich, happy life because she chose that life,” he told mourners.“From her humble beginnings as a little girl sharing a bed with two sisters in a cold, tar-paper home, she didn’t wait for good things to happen. She made good things happen. For her and those around her.”The former premier told the Star that, on his wedding day, his mother gave him the best advice he ever received on marria ...


 
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