LET US CONTINUE TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS has different significance to many people: For some it means to have a few days "off" away from the business pressures they endured during the year. Others are busy closing their "Books", while many are just beginning to earn some income, because their business is "End-of-the-Year" oriented, while celebrating their spiritual festivities and welcoming the New Year. And it happened that at this time of the year the Christians honour the birth of Jesus Christ, who was educating people to be virtuous and compassionate to each other. There are no restrictions or guidelines to any ethnic group by the Government as to how to greet the End-Of-The-Year Festivities, except the greeting of “Merry Christmas" is being discouraged. We wish to continue to use this hundreds of years old GREETING. Love and Peace Amongst Nations Olga O'Mara-Raven omaraolga@yahoo.ca Stories by Mike Strobe:“Stealing Christmas, The Toronto Sun, December 8, 2010 and "Giving Grinches a Kick", The Toronto Sun, December 9, 2010 ). The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Langevin Building 80 Wellington Street Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 P E T I T I O N We, the Undersigned Canadians, strongly object to the omitted use of the word CHRISTMAS in either written or spoken form at the end of the year and at other times. While virtually all ethnic-end-of-the-year festive days are referred to by their traditional names e.g.Hanukkah, risdvo, roschdestvo, etc. But ONLY the reference to the host nation’s traditional holiday (i.e. CHRISTMAS) is continually being suppressed and belittled. We petition for Your input in our predicament.

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