There are so many better ways to say having kids sucks and having even more kids sucks even more. To think all the joy I would never experience if I had kids. By joy I mean LEGO and video games.
October is better positioned as a school holiday than late Novemeber? Thanksgiving in Canada doesn't have the jingoistic baggage that the US does around the holiday.
...and like Canada, have it in October. Space it out a bit and really extend that holiday shopping season. If Costco has Giant skellymen on Aug 1st, we can have Thanksgiving the first week of October.