Canada more united than it's been since Centennial year: Harper

Canada more united than it's been since Centennial year: Harper

Richard Foot, CanWest News Service

Published: Thursday, August 02, 2007

CHARLOTTETOWN -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada is more united -- and Quebecers more loyal to the country -- than at any time in the past 40 years, and his government deserves all the credit.

In a speech to a large, partisan audience in Prince Edward Island Wednesday night, where the federal Conservatives are holding their annual summer caucus meeting, Harper said his government's handling of the economy, tax reform, the war in Afghanistan - and particularly his controversial decision last year to pass a motion in the House of Commons declaring Quebec a nation within a "united Canada" - have brought Canadians together in a way not seen since the Centennial year of 1967.