Canada leaders sign Irish Unity Pledge during Conor Murphy MP tour

THE Mayor of Burnaby, the third-largest city in British Columbia and immediately east of Vancouver, has signed the Irish Unity Pledge during a speaking tour of western Canada by Sinn Féin Newry/Armagh MP Conor Murphy.

As well as Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, Irish-born Gavin McGarrigle, the Director (British Columbia) of UNIFOR, Canada’s largest private sector union, also signed the Irish Unity Pledge. Gavin signed after a meeting held with Irene Lanzinger, Secretary/Treasurer of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, where Conor Murphy briefed them on Sinn Féin’s anti-austerity struggle across Ireland.

Conor also gave St Albert MP Brent Rathgeber an update on the state of the Peace Process and Sinn Féin’s campaign for a united Ireland.

● Conor with Unifor’s Gavin McGarrigle and BC Federation of Labour’s Irene Lanzinger

Public meetings were addressed by Conor in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. Recent émigrés from Ireland working in the oil sands near Fort McMurray made the journey to Edmonton for the event.

Media appearances included interviews on CBC Radio’s popular morning programme The Early Edition in Vancouver and with The Tyee and Celtic Connection newspaper.

The tour ended with a well-attended and highly-successful golf tournament and dinner hosted by Friends of Sinn Féin Canada in Calgary.

● Conor with St Albert MP Brent Rathgeber and Friends of Sinn Féin Canada's Alex O’Donnell