{"id":109169,"date":"2026-04-20T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=109169"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:24:58","slug":"mark-carney-connects-maj-gen-brocks-past-to-canadas-future-in-public-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/04\/mark-carney-connects-maj-gen-brocks-past-to-canadas-future-in-public-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney connects Maj.-Gen. Brock&#8217;s past to Canada&#8217;s future in public address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a video address to Canadians on Sunday, April 19, with a key portion of his speech dedicated to the history of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, whom Brock University is named after.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing a small figurine that he keeps in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office, Carney detailed Maj.-Gen. Brock&#8217;s efforts in the War of 1812 alongside Indigenous leader Tecumseh.<\/p>\n<p><span data-teams=\"true\">\u201cThis statue of General Brock that I see every morning in the Prime Minister\u2019s office reminds me that when we are united as Canadians, we can withstand anything,\u201d he said in the video.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Forward Guidance with Prime Minister Mark Carney\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uk2TZwkhi4E?start=224&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a video address to Canadians on Sunday, April 19, with a key portion of his speech dedicated to the history of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, whom Brock University is named after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[15116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109169"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109180,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169\/revisions\/109180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}