Service Canada: Personal Spaces

Quebec Dept: The backpedalling capped a day of denunciations, after the Quebec chief of Service Canada sent e-mails to employees telling them they could hang holiday decorations in their personal spaces, but not in areas serving the public, according to Globe and Mail. The storm reached the House of Commons, where opposition MPs from Quebec seized on the matter and by afternoon, the ban had been reversed by a federal minister who reassured Canadians that the Harper government did, in fact, like Christmas. Within hours, the ban at about 120 federal offices in the province had been ridiculed on Twitter, derided on open-line shows, and criticized by the very religious minorities whose sensibilities the government was ostensibly trying to respect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.