national unity
Canada is not the regionally divided country it’s made out to be
Put 100 Albertans in a room with 100 Quebecers and you’d be shocked how many can find someone from the other province who agrees with them on big issues
Jason Kenney’s posse gallops onto the dry, indifferent prairie
By the end of the premiers’ conference, his coalition of the ‘frustrated and alienated’ looked surprisingly shallow
Hug it out, federalists
Paul Wells explains why Stephen Harper called Thomas Mulcair
Ignatieff responds to furor over Quebec separatism comments
Nothing shakes up the country’s pundits and politicians like a few comments on national unity from a prominent Canadian. In February, an uproar followed remarks made by Liberal MP—and son of a legendary prime minister—Justin Trudeau regarding his willingness to support Quebec separatism if the country continues down the path the Conservatives are taking in Ottawa.
Justin Trudeau: reflections on a grown man
Does anybody recognize the “Canada of Stephen Harper” Trudeau ranted against so excitingly?
A country gets its back up
WELLS: Even if Jack Layton fades in the stretch, something permanent will remain
Does the CBC want Quebec to separate?
Ezra Levant is wrong. The CBC Vote Compass thing isn’t a shill for the Liberal Party of Canada*. For fans of National Unity™, it’s actually much worse. The CBC, or at least the CBC Vote Compass, is apparently in bed with the coalition-loving, Canada-hating, tax-and-spend separatists. Gadzooks!
This year’s national unity crisis
Stephen Harper, 2008. The Liberals’ carbon tax plan will plunge Canada into recession, sparking economic unrest that will revive Quebec’s separatist movement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says. Harper revived the ghosts of regional divisions today as he painted the Liberals’ greenhouse gas strategy as a costly folly whose impacts will reach far beyond the country’s economy. “By undermining the economy and re-centralizing money and power in Ottawa, it can only undermine the progress that we have been making on national unity,” Harper told a breakfast audience this morning.
Is the PQ ‘all united’ behind Marois?
The Parti Québécois leader looks to placate hardliners at the party’s convention in Montreal
Girding for battle with the provinces
Stephen Harper faces high-stakes fights on many fronts
Canada is a French country
COYNE: Stephen Harper has been playing up the province’s role in Canadian history
Playing the unity card
Politicians need to stop casting every other issue as a potential unity crisis