'We maken er wat moois van' And there’s great reason for celebration: On this day 71 years ago Canadian General Charles Foulkes met with German General Johannes Blaskowitz at the Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen, Holland, where he accepted the surrender of all German forces in the Netherlands.It was the end of a long and bloody campaign for the Canadian First Army – but just another chapter in the close relationship between Canada and Holland that had developed during the Second World War.When the Netherlands was first occupied by German forces in May of 1940, Queen Wilhelmina and the Dutch Royal Family sought refuge in Canada.When Princess Juliana gave birth to her daughter Princess Margriet on January 19, 1943, the hospital room in which she was born was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government, so that Margriet would be born a Dutch citizen.She remains the only European member of a royal family ever born on North American soil.The campaign to liberate Holland began in September of 1944, after the D-Day landings and campaign to liberate France. Dutch civilians hide from German snipers in Amsterdam. Canada is proud to have helped free the country from occupation in 1945!” the Government of Canada tweeted out Thursday morning.By midday, thousands of people had taken to the streets in cities across Holland for parades, street parties, and even an outdoor music festival – so much so that officials in the Dutch city of Rotterdam were warning revelers that the designated celebration zones in the city’s downtown had already reached capacity.Photos posted to social media showed the streets teeming with people adorned in Dutch flag colours taking full advantage of the national holiday – and wonderful weather.Liberation Day in Holland! Canada is proud to have helped free the country from occupation in 1945!” the Government of Canada tweeted out Thursday morning. In Berlin, protesters gathered Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy, demonstrating for a second day.

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Canada is proud to have helped free the country from occupation in 1945!” the Government of Canada tweeted out Thursday morning. This would include restaurants or convenience stores, for example. When calculating the indemnity (1/20) to which their employees are entitled, if applicable, with respect to the National Holiday and/or Canada Day, employers under both provincial and federal jurisdiction must take into account the wages paid over the four (4) weeks preceding the week of the holiday, even if the employer received the CEWS for such period.Beyond COVID-19: Crisis response or road to recovery?In the recently released decision of Battiston v Microsoft Canada Inc., the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that a stock award agreement’s termination provisions were unenforceable.On August 5th, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) announced a final extension to most patent, trademark and industrial design deadlines falling between March 16, 2020, and August 21, 2020, meaning they are extended to the next working day August 24, 2020.A recent Supreme Court of Canada decision definitively settles longstanding uncertainty about whether the doctrine of waiver of tort operates as an independent cause of action. The Netherlands deployed further troops and helicopters to Afghanistan in 2006 as part of a new ISAF security operation in the south of the country.In 2007, the Netherlands sold 100 Leopard tanks to Canada. In fact, the requirement that the employee must have been employed by the employer for 30 days in order to receive holiday pay was repealed last fall. The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery near the Dutch city of Nijmegen alone holds the graves of nearly 2.500 Canadian soldiers, tended to carefully by hundreds of Dutch children each year.Upon the liberation of her country, Princess Juliana presented a gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs as a thank you to Canada, starting a tradition that continues to this day – there’s even a weeklong “tulip festival” held in Ottawa each year to mark their arrival.“As a fighter-reconnaissance pilot Veteran of the Battle for the Liberation of the Netherlands, I had first-hand exposure both to the deprivation forced upon the Dutch people by their Nazi conquerors and to the enormous casualties endured by Canadian forces in the bloody struggle to defeat the German military,” Major-General Richard Rohmer, a WWII veteran, once remarked. However, there are some practical considerations to keep in mind.For employers under provincial jurisdiction, there exist, in our opinion, good arguments to support that employees who are laid off are not entitled to holiday benefits, particularly considering the fact that the layoff does not have the effect of  severing the employment relationship, suspends the employee’s obligation to perform work and, in turn, that of the employer to pay the employee his or her wages and the other pecuniary benefits derived therefromFor employers under both provincial and federal jurisdiction, employees whose hours of work are reduced are entitled to holiday benefits, including benefits associated with the National Holiday and Canada Day.