Saskatoon city hall has made strides to improve the process of naming roads, but the process of renaming still needs further refining.
was formed to offer advice on renaming the 1.8-kilometre road in the city’s Confederation Park neighbourhood, where roads bear the names of Canadian prime ministers.question the process“It’s one thing to put a new name on a road and it’s another thing to rename a road, especially one that has had people living on it for many, many years,” Clark said Wednesday at council.
Macdonald’s legacy, despite his undeniable contribution to Canada as the father of Confederation, is being reconsidered in light of his role in implementing Indian residential schools that aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples by forcing children to leave their families to attend.Advertisement 4Renaming the road, which still needs to be officially approved with a bylaw, was intended to be a “healing” process, not a “hurtful” one, Clark added.
Plus, despite a direct question by Kirton of city administration, we still don’t know the cost of the renaming, which will apparently include a “good will” payment of undetermined value to residents on the street. The cost of renaming Dundas Street in Toronto — granted, a roadway more than 12 times as long that runs through downtown — is estimated at $8.6 million. That cost has sparked hesitance as Toronto struggles with an inflation-fuelled budget crisis similar to the one Saskatoon is facing.
While you might agree with the principle behind renaming John A. Macdonald Road, the process needs further refining to truly reflect a good relationship between city hall and residents.
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