In a pre-Canada Day newsletter, MP Yasir Naqvi sent his constituents a flyer with Naqvi’s contact information and a poorly rendered Canadian map to ‘Display with pride’
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A Liberal MP’s map of Canada has drawn attention for omitting provinces and territories and blurring some key borders.
In a pre-Canada Day effort at outreach, MP Yasir Naqvi sent his constituents in Ottawa Central a flyer with Naqvi’s contact information — and a poorly rendered map to “Display with pride!”
The blank colouring map is missing Prince Edward Island, the maritime province nestled above New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. (In fact, our smallest province has a long history of being forgotten, including in a book of Champlain’s voyages dating back to 1613, as one historian found out).
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On the other side of the map, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon are also given short shrift, represented as a single landmass with no dividing border.
Tory MP Michelle Rempel Garner shared a image of the flyer in a post on X pointing out these and other cartographic oversights.
“Pre Canada Day fun time,” the post begins. “Can you spot the error that whoever was supposed to proof this mailer didn’t catch?”
Rempel Garner notes another “fairly significant” oversight: the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are lumped together as one.
“If you want to be picky, Baffin Island is depicted as a peninsula and the Avalon Peninsula is depicted as an island,” she adds.
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On Sunday, Naqvi tried to redeem the map in a post admitting some of its shortcomings.
“#CanadaDay is coming! To mark this moment, we sent a Canadian flag to you to display with pride. But we made a mistake. The map is missing PEI and Yukon. My team and I apologize,” Naqvi wrote on X.
Naqvi said the maps could serve as a teaching opportunity for young children.
“Please think of it as an interactive map to teach kids our geography, or to start to learn more about these amazing places. From my team and I, our best wishes to you for a #HappyCanadaDay!”
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“No apology to New Brunswick?” user Steven Klaiber-Noble responded.
As CBC points out, the flyers likely were taxpayer funded. Each MP is allowed to send up to four “householders” or newsletters to their constituents for free.
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