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Michael Higgins: On Emancipation Day, Carney shamed Canadians

Liberals will do anything except celebrate our country's role abolishing slavery

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When the Carney Liberals lecture Canadians on history it is with a smugness and self-righteousness that is as loathsome as it is tiresome.

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Saturday’s Emancipation Day — created by the Liberals in 2021 — proved such an occasion for pontificating and sermonizing by our prime minister and senior ministers.

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In a statement over the weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney was at pains to point out that “slavery existed here” and that while the 1834 Slavery Abolition Act marked a turning point, “freedom was not granted in a single day.”

He went on: “Today, we honour those whose courage helped make our country freer, fairer, and stronger.”

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