Will Quebec scrap time change? Public consultations launched on seasonal ritual

Spring forward, autumn backmost oregon nary flipping astatine all? Quebec is mulling what to bash with time change.

Justice Minister Simon-Jolin Barrette announced a nationalist consultation Tuesday, saying radical tin measurement successful with their opinions online.

“We privation to perceive from you connected the question of clip alteration successful Quebec,” Jolin-Barrette told reporters astatine the provincial legislature successful Quebec City.

The state besides hopes to perceive however Quebecers from each walks of beingness presently woody with the twice-annual ritual of winding the timepiece guardant and back, Jolin-Barrette said.

The bulk of Canadian provinces abide by the seasonal change, but Yukon and astir of Saskatchewan support their clocks the aforesaid year-round.

Quebec Premier François Legault had previously suggested helium wasn’t opposed to the thought of scrapping it, but that it wasn’t a priority. Meanwhile, Ontario officials person said they would determination connected Daylight Saving Time (DST) if neighbouring New York and Quebec did.

Jolin-Barrette says the nationalist consultations volition beryllium held online starting Tuesday done December.

— with files from Global’s Uday Rana, Saba Aziz and The Canadian Press