QUEBEC — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement that the Plains of Abraham symbolize the start of something good shows his complete lack of knowledge of Quebec history, politicians said Friday.
“What a gaffe, what a historic error,” Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said in an interview with Radio-Canada. “The Battle of the Plains of Abraham are the conquest, the culmination point where the English came and defeated the French and burned villages, etc.
“There’s nothing glorious in this.”
