Reform Party Founder Manning Urges Political Parties to Acknowledge Canada’s ‘Regional Character’

Reform Party Founder Manning Urges Political Parties to Acknowledge Canada’s ‘Regional Character’
Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning at a conference in Ottawa on Feb. 9, 2018. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
Omid Ghoreishi
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Reform Party founder Preston Manning says in a country as vast as Canada, federal parties need to recognize the unique aspirations of different regions, an issue he says hasn’t been a central focus in the current election campaign.

“It’s a huge, huge country. You have Atlantic Canada. You have the Laurentian region that’s made up of Quebec—which is quite distinctive—and Ontario. You have the Prairie region, you have the Pacific region, and you have the northern region,” Manning said in an interview with The Epoch Times.

Omid Ghoreishi
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Omid Ghoreishi is with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times.
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