Time is up for the biannual clock change, Liberal MP says
Posted on: Oct 02, 2025 23:11 IST | Posted by: Cbc
An MP says all of Canada should terminate the exercise of ever-changing the clocks twice a twelvemonth — and is provision on introducing legislation she hopes will ensure the custom is lost to time.
"Canadians will often engage in conversation and debates about why it is we change our clocks back and forward," Ottawa Liberal MP Marie-France Lalonde said Thursday during a news conference on Parliament Hill.
"Today, I'm here to say the time has come to address time change."
A majority of jurisdictions in Canada observe the biannual time change, pushing the clocks forward an hour in the spring only to wind them back an hour in the fall.
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Lalonde said she is planning on introducing a private member's bill that wouldn't explicitly eliminate the time change, but calls on the federal government to organize a conference with various stakeholders to formalize and establish a set clock that would hold year round.
Saskatchewan, Yukon and parts of B.C. And Nunavut do not observe the practice — with Yukon having only just made the permanent switch to daylight saving time in 2020.
Other provinces have mulled the idea of getting rid of the time change but seem reluctant to make the move on their own.
Atlantic premiers mused publicly about adopting permanent daylight time in 2022, but said they would not pursue it unless others take the lead.
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B.C., Manitoba and Ontario have all tied their time change policy to certain U.S. States. Quebec and the Northwest Territories have both held public consultations on the possibility of eliminating time changes but neither have made an official decision.
Meanwhile, Alberta held a referendum in 2021 on whether to continue changing clocks twice a year. Albertans voted 50.2 per cent in favour of continuing the practice.
Lalonde suggested her initiative would bring the country together to collectively decide on how to proceed.
"Let's stop speaking individually and start speaking collectively," she said.
"I'm doing this because I think that provincial [governments] have had these conversations. Now let's bring everybody [together]."
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