An 1894 statue of the country’s founding prime minister has been boarded up since 2020 following several incidents of vandalism.
Some suggest tearing the statue down, moving it into storage, leaving it in place with a plaque on residential schools, putting it in a museum where Macdonald’s legacy — good and bad — can be more fully explained and explored, or adding a residential schools monument.
The Ford government is not tipping its hand on the fate of the statue, which is the property of the Archives of Ontario. “It could take a generation,” warns professor Patrice Dutil, who maintains Canadians should consider Macdonald in a broad context. “When the school is on the reserve the child lives with its parents, who are savages, he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write,” the prime minister told MPs.
“We’re still all raw from uncovering all the pain. And when I say that, I don’t just mean Indigenous people … that was a real kick in the stomach to a lot of Canadians.”, says the challenge in deciding the fate of the Macdonald statue is to find a solution “that addresses the conflict but doesn’t create a bigger problem.”
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