First Nations consultant scolds MPPs at hearing about controversial Sir John A. Macdonald statue – Toronto Star
Aug. 19, 2024
Four years after a statue of Canada’s first prime minister was boarded up to protect it from vandals, a committee of MPPs gathering input on its future has been schooled by a First Nations equity consultant.
The warning was frank.
Four years after a Queen’s Park statue of founding prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald was boarded up for protection from vandals, a committee of MPPs slowly gathering input on its future has been scolded and schooled by a First Nations equity consultant.
It was a delicate moment, symbolic of the challenges of reconciliation, as debate simmers over what’s next for the image of a historic figure whose legacy is tarnished by his role in creating residential schools, where thousands of Indigenous children died in tragic and brutal circumstances.
