The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre promoted the national unit and minimized the argument of former reform leader Manning to vote for Mark Carney liberals is a vote for Western secession during a campaign stop on Thursday.
“No,” said Pailievre when asked if he agrees with the provocative opinion article of Manning in the world and mail this week.
“We need to unite the country. We need to unite all Canadians in a spirit of common land.”
Manning, a major statesman of many in conservative circles, argued that Carney is a threat to national unity and said that Western Canadians “will simply not represent another four years of liberal government.”
Manning said that the impulse of secession is rooted in Alberta and Saskatchewan, angry at the natural resources policies of liberals, but has the potential to extend to Manitoba, British Columbia and the territories.
“Voters, particularly in the Center and Atlantic of Canada, must recognize that a vote for Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession, a vote for Canada’s rupture as we know it,” Manning wrote.
Manning continues to write that Western political leaders must “provide a mechanism to recognize and address the growing support for Western secession in an orderly and democratic way.”
He suggested a conference or some type of forum that is held after the elections of April 28 to draw the next course of action.
“The next Prime Minister of Canada, if Mark Carney remains, would identify in the books of history, tragic and unnecessarily, as the last prime minister of a United Canada wrote,” Manning wrote, who directed the official opposition at the end of the 1990s.
His reform party, a home from the conservatives of western Canada, who disappointed Ottawa, then transformed into the Canadian alliance and finally merged with the progressive conservative party to form the conservative party of Modern Canada.
Pailievre, who at an early age was active with the right -wing reform party of Manning, did not get involved with Manning’s arguments during his press conference on Thursday, but argued that a conservative government would be better to unite the country.
The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking of Kingston, Ontario, on the 12th of the electoral campaign, answers a question about an opinion article by the founder of the Reforma Preston Manning Party, who argued that Western Canada will separate if the liberals win the elections.
“We cannot give the liberals a fourth term in power,” he said during a campaign stop in Kingston, Ontario, relying on his reference arguments of this electoral campaign.
“What we need is a new conservative government that will link the Canadians, will unleash our production of resources, reduced taxes to our workers and businessmen so that we can bring our jobs home and face the president [Donald] Trump of a strength position to vary. “
Earlier this week, Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith said she is not interested in a referendum about Alberta’s independence, but said citizens have a mechanism if there is enough support.
“We have a process initiated by Citizens in which if you get enough petition firms, you can force a vote,” he said.
“I got a mandate to fix Canada.”
In a letter that was made public this week, Smith wrote Quebec François Legault to press for greater provincial autonomy.
“I see an opportunity before us, like democratically chosen leaders from Alberta and Quebec, to draw a path to a new era in Canadian federalism,” Smith said in the March 21 letter written to his Quebec counterpart.
Pailievre’s comments occur in the midst of a renewed feeling of patriotism in many corners of Canada as Trump frees a punishing commercial war and, often confusing, against Canada, the closest ally of his country.
