Islander Day

Maybe they attack every single minor increment in trying to attain standards that workers in most every province now enjoy -facet PEI with this addition still has the 2nd lowest number of stat holidays of any jurisdiction in Canada (and the lowest wages, lowest employment standards in many areas -and which this group has been actively opposing even implementing the modest reforms suggested well over two years ago and which have yet to be implemented)

I think Islander Day is a good name — while Islanders think that everyone in the word calls Islanders Islanders, it’s mostly, in my experience, an internal short-form and deserves to be celebrated.

It would be cool if all islands in the world had a holiday on the same day - from Trinidad to Bermuda. That would really be ‘Islander Day’.

But Islanders use it in the form “you’re not a (real) Islanders,” too, so there are negative connotations based on the tensions of the traditional lack of hospitality that goes along with traditional PEI hospitality. Better, then, I would suggest would be a non-smarmy non-LLM-esque artist could be celebrated like Milton Acorn or, even better, the wonderful Larry Gorman who was run out of the province. Larry Gorman Day would be perfect. Like Scotlands Robbie Burns Day, the celebration of someone who spoke cranky truths.