The final disgrace of Sir Hector-Louis Langevin is at hand as Prime Minister Trudeau Wednesday renamed the government building known to generations as the Langevin Block to — well — something else. This is because the 19th Century Quebec federalist and Father of Confederation was an author of the Residential Schools program and is said to have made it clear that native children should be separated from their parents to make sure they were fully integrated. As is known subsequent denunciations of this process have led to declarations that Canadians committed “cultural genocide” on Aboriginal People.
