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INGONISH, N.S. — Rhadie Murphy has spent her life on the rugged coastline that snakes along Cape Breton’s northern flank, its pink granite rocks stretching out near her home in the heart of Ingonish.

The 72-year-old is unreserved in her pride and praise of the small community on the eastern edge of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, calling that piece of the Cabot Trail “the most beautiful place in the world.”

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So Murphy and her large family were left shaking their heads in bewilderment when their tranquil hometown took centre stage in a fractious debate over Mother Canada, the towering war monument that could adorn their shoreline.

“I’m 100 per cent for it, oh God yes. It’s the ideal location and it’s a good way to respect the veterans,” she said from her home about a kilometre from the proposed site in Green Cove.

“It will be good for the community and make jobs. I can’t see that little spot that they’re talking about hurting the environment. Why they’re making such a fuss over this I don’t know.”