On the occasion of Easter long weekend On Twitter, a particular debate took place following a tweet from a user that generated conflicting opinions.
Sebastian Stolkiner, a 19-year-old who is expat in toronto, trendy over the past few hours for posting a tweet that read, “In Canada, we only have 6 holidays a year (New Years, Good Friday, Canada Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas). In Argentina there are 19. That’s why the country is as it is“.
Between holidays and tourist bridge days This year Argentina will have 20 days during which this will not work: New Year, Carnival, National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, Falklands War Veterans and Fallen Day, Good Friday, Workers Day, National Census Day 2022, May Revolution Day, Passage to Immortality of General Don Martín Miguel de Gemes, Passage to Immortality of General Manuel Belgrano, Independence Day, Passage to Immortality of General José de San Martín, Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity, Day of of National Sovereignty, Immaculate Conception of Mary and Christmas.
Other Twitter users have taken it upon themselves to clarify this, According to the official website of the Canadian government, this country will have a total of 13 public holidays: New Year, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victory Day (May 23), Saint Jean Baptiste (June 24, Quebec only), Canada Day (July 1), Civic Holiday (July 1), August), Holiday (September 5), National Truth and Reconciliation Day (September 30), Thanksgiving (October 10), Remembrance Day (November 11), Christmas and Boxing Day (December 26).
Comments and criticisms were not long in coming. for the young man who, in August last year, left the country to study in Canada and posted, also on Twitter, a photo in Ezeiza with a text that read: “Don’t cry for me, cry for Argentina.”
However, Stolkiner defended himself against the comments, saying: “They ask me not to go back to Argentina. And what did they think? I am not stupid. Whoever leaves does not return to the Peronist paradise of Polentero.”
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