Blatchford, NP: Well, when the City of Victoria packed up the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald last weekend and replaced it with a plaque, said plaque explained that the removal was done to “show progress on the path of reconciliation” while “the City, the Nations and the wider community grapple with Macdonald’s complex history as both the first Prime Minister of Canada and a leader of violence against Indigenous Peoples.”
Undoubtedly, there are yet more coming we don’t know about, streets and public buildings to be renamed, books to be rewritten, historical figures to be demonized.
How is it that the country that once produced such towering figures — settlers and Indigenous — is now locked into this sorry dance of apologies sought, apologies given?
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