‘Stronger together’: B.C.’s Eby sends Thanksgiving message to Albertans

BC NDP Leader David Eby has issued a Thanksgiving message encouraging Albertans to vote for unity with Canada in next week’s referendum on their province’s place in Confederation.

Eby says his party’s candidates are proud of a Canada that includes Alberta, and he hopes the province votes to stay with the rest in the country on Oct. 19, rather than support a second, binding referendum on leaving.

He says in Sunday’s message on social media that the two provinces have bonds of family, friendship and business and are “stronger together.”

A campaign spokeswoman says Eby went to a pumpkin patch in Delta, B.C., with his family on Sunday and they’ll spend time on Monday having fish and chips with the children’s grandparents, in a family Thanksgiving tradition.