While campaigning during the last weekend before election day on April 28, the federal party leaders responded to comments made by Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, calling Canada an “artificial country.”
When replying to a reporters’ question at an April 25 news conference in Shawinigan, Que., Blanchet said Canada is an “artificial country with very little meaning.”
Liberal leader Mark Carney was asked about Blanchet’s comments during a stop in King City, Ont., on the morning of April 26.
“I reject them completely,” Carney said. “I’m incredibly proud to be Canadian. We have done incredible things, or those who came before us have done incredible things to create this kind diverse, ambitious, humble country.”…