Liberal leader Mark Carny appointed the wrong university as the Montreal Massacre site of 1989 on Tuesday, and launched the surname of the survivor who runs with his party.
At a campaign stop at the port of Musquodoboit in the leadership of Nova de Nova de Nueva Scotia center, Carney made a wink to the liberal candidate Nathalie Provost, but made two critical mistakes in the process.
“Want The Justice Social MuesticeSeursas Nathalie Pronovost à Montréal“Said Carney, calling Provost a defender of social justice.
Then he repeated the name of Provost, made the same mistake and added another.
“Nathalie Pronovost, who out of the tragedy of the shootings in Concordia, became an activist of social justice and she raised her hand and is running for us.”
The shooting occurred in Polytechnique, the School of Engineering of the University of Montréal.
Carney said she apologized in a call to Provost after, but Bloc Québécois leader, Yves-François Blanchet, hastened to quickly take advantage of mistakes, the day after Carney had made another rise related to Quebec by rejecting an invitation to the debate of TVA-à-Face.
“Mrs. Provost will direct her campaign, but she must inform her leader of who she is, what she did and what happened because she is one of the saddest and most dramatic wounds in the history of Quebec and I think Mr. Carney should know that,” Blanchet said.
He also published the incident on X, saying that the block had supported the years of Provost efforts to get liberals to change arms laws.
Provost is the liberal candidate for a suburb of Montreal, Châteauguay-Le Jardins-de-Napierville. His candidacy leaked to the media in French last week, days before Carney requested an election.
She is well known in Quebec and throughout the country for her lobbying years for a stronger weapons control, along with the survivor of the Heidi Rathjen massacre.
The two survivors were honored in Parliament Hill in February 2024 for the work of their Polysesouvient group.
During a campaign stop on Halifax on Tuesday 3 of the electoral campaign, the leader of the Liberal Party Mark Carney nodded with the candidate of his Nathalie Provost party, who survived the Politechnique shooting, but got the name of the school to be wrong when said Concordia, and also flowed the surname of Provost.
Provost was shot four times in Politechnique when he was 23 years old. He even spoke with the gunman before he shot at the nine women in the classroom of Provost. The gunman killed 14 people and he wounded others 15. He said he wanted to fight feminism.
The name of the name was a ‘typographic error’: provost
In a French interview with CBC News on Tuesday afternoon, Provost said she fights with people’s names.
“For someone to kill, my name adding two letters does not offend me because it is something I could have done,” he said. “It’s just a typographic error.”
However, the mistake that does not make twice, said Provost, is to obtain the place where the worst mass murder of women in Canadian history happened badly.
Provost said that he believes that Carney was abroad at the time of the massacre, but also believes that he was affected by that, just like any other Canadian.
“He got the essence of who I am,” in his comments, said Provost. “I am a woman committed to arms control because I was a victim of a shooting. All that is true.”
Provost said she contacted the Liberal Party first.
