I call on Liberal MPPs to not work on Family Day

Bravo to Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty for declaring today that the new statutory holiday, Family Day, will be celebrated beginning in 2008. It is indeed important for busy working people to have more time to spend with their families. I also wish that future improvements in our standard of living be taken in the form of more free time rather than in higher wages (used to purchase more "stuff"). I believe that's a more sustainable way to become richer and I believe that Family Day, or whatever it might have been called, is a step in the right direction.
To be faithful to the spirit of Family Day, I therefore call on all Liberal party MPPs to not work on that holiday. That means not just staying away from Queen's Park, but not engaging in any public activity back home either. Instead of just adjusting MPP's salaries, I think that we should be compensating our politicians by forcing them to take time off work. I think a lot of fine people cannot enter public service because of the demands it puts on their personal lives and the lives of their family members. For this reason I think that an enforced day of rest is a step in the right direction towards eventually encouraging a larger pool of people to consider seeking public office.