Re: Canadian national unity: Crisis by design
Ah, right on time. There's Preston Manning, you know, the Reform Party of Canada leader who once infamously said that those who took the "gold-plated MPs pension" were “pigs,” then took it himself.
In the newspapers recently, he threatened Western Canadian separation if Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives do not win the election.
Leave aside the fact that the federal Conservatives did this to themselves, by making Preston Manning's old protégé Trumpy Poilievre leader in the first place.
Rather than a card carrying Reformer, they should have picked the more moderate, pragmatic and centrist Jean Charest, who hailed from the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, who is still very popular in Quebec, years after his tenure there as premier.
Manning and his ilk are basically children: Let me win or I will flip the game board! Maybe they will resort to a desperate Trumpy ‘the vote was rigged’ claim next, when the federal Liberals, under Mark Carney, very likely win a consecutive fourth election on April 28.
Gerd Damm
Calgary AB
