Carney calls Preston Manning’s Western independence comments ‘dramatic’ [Video]

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he governs for all of Canada and called prominent conservative Preston Manning’s comments on Western independence “dramatic” during a campaign stop in Montreal on Friday. 

In a recent op-ed for the Globe and Mail, the Reform Party founder pointed to the deep-rooted feelings of Western alienation among some voters and argued support for independence will boil over if the Liberals are re-elected April 28.

“Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession — a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it,” Manning wrote. 

“The next prime minister of Canada, if it remains Mark Carney, would then be identified in the history books, tragically and needlessly, as the last prime minister of a united Canada.”

Manning said the push for secession is rooted in Alberta and Saskatchewan, provinces long angered by the Liberals’ natural resource policies, …