OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadians have joined a global push to strip public spaces of racist and colonial symbols, calling this week for a statue of Canada's first prime minister to be taken down and the renaming of a Toronto street.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OTTAWA - Canadians have joined a global push to strip public spaces of racist and colonial symbols, calling this week for a statue of Canada's first prime minister to be taken down and the renaming of a Toronto street.
This comes after moves to remove statues honoring Confederate generals and slave owners in the United States in response to anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of Mr George Floyd. MacDonald's statue, installed in 1895 in the heart of Montreal, has been repeatedly vandalised over the years.
But she also welcomed the opportunity for"a dialogue between what was the past and what was right then or what was acceptable then, where at one point we're like, as a society, 'enough.'"
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