Carney Adds Two Alberta Rallies Before the Oct. 19 Referendum

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has accepted an invitation to attend two Forever Canadian rallies in Alberta this week, ahead of the Oct. 19 referendum. CBC reports he will make a stop in Calgary on Thursday and another in Edmonton on Friday. A sitting prime minister giving two consecutive days to one province in the closing stretch of a referendum campaign is a scheduling choice that reads as a position, and it is harder to soften later than a statement from Ottawa would have been.