History doesn\u0027t exonerate Canada\u0027s first prime minister, but the majority of residential school deaths raged under Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir Robert Borden and…
pointing out that conditions in the schools were responsible for a death rate 20 times the Canadian average. The Laurier government ignored him and the high mortality rate continued.
After the Second World War, medical and scientific experiments were being done on Indigenous students while Canadian lawyers were helping prosecute Nazis for similar but worse experiments on PoWs.Article contentWhy is the Sept. 30 march not also heading down Laurier Avenue and over the Mackenzie King Bridge?of prime minister Pierre Trudeau and his Indian Affairs minister, Jean Chrétien. It would have eliminated all rights, treaties and reserves and assimilated all Indians.
When “cancel culture” recently became popular, the government of Justin Trudeau renamed the Langevin Block in Ottawa , but left the name of the architect of the 1969 White Paper on Pierre Elliott International Airport in Montreal. Under “cancel culture,” presumably nothing could ever be named for Chrétien.Article content
In short, removing any name or statue is highly questionable but removing Macdonald’s name alone has been and would be unjust, partisan, contrary to the TRC recommendations, and a reflection of ignorance rather than knowledge of the history of Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations.
That would leave less time for symbolic, divisive and counter-productive measures such as remaining streets and removing statues.
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