Political leaders are keeping a straight face as they announce that all things named after or representing John A. Macdonald will not be expunged from public sight Not this week anyway. Premier Wynne waxed on about learning from history — good and bad — when she demurred to changing the name of who knows how many schools named after the first prime minister. Justin Trudeau has also said that the statue of Macdonald in Ottawa will stay. However shameful Indigenous activists may find Macdonald, the spectacle of elected leaders having to address these things is humiliating to the country. They might just as reasonably have said that they won’t be demolishing the Ontario Legislature or the Parliament Buildings, scene of much cockeyed “colonialist” behaviour.
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