Archinect - News2024-12-22T08:15:02-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/130791046/plans-for-mother-canada-statue-face-harsh-opposition
Plans for 'Mother Canada' statue face harsh opposition Alexander Walter2015-06-30T12:50:00-04:00>2015-06-30T13:17:12-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/o0/o0m1h69lafg1iefe.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A plan to erect a 10-storey statue in a national park on one of Canada’s most scenic shorelines has prompted outrage and sparked a growing political row [...].
The statue of Mother Canada – a cloaked female figure with her arms outstretched towards the Atlantic Ocean – is intended to honour the country’s soldiers who died overseas.
But growing anger over the plan has made it a new focus of opposition to the increasingly unpopular government of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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