INNISFIL, Ont. ? While the mayor of this Ontario town will be celebrating Christmas, she says the tree up in Town Hall is a holiday tree.
?We work in a secular environment ? religion doesn't enter into a government building. We wanted to make it an inclusive celebration for everybody," Mayor Barb Baguley said.
?I don't have a problem wishing people a Merry Christmas, and I have my own personal celebration of Christmas, but in the government office, I have a profound respect for all cultures in our community. So we're calling it a holiday tree.?
The donated tree has decorations from local school children.
Elmer Spring, of Spring Tree Farms, donated the tree and said he can't understand why they'd ask him to donate a Christmas tree and then call it something else.
?I find it kind of pathetic that they'd say to people, 'Come see our holiday tree,'? said Spring. ?We gave them a Christmas tree, they asked the kids to decorate it like a Christmas tree. That's what it is.?
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Source: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2011/12/22/19159811.html?cid=rssnewscanada
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