01-12-2013, 02:24 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: May 2012
Location: The Kilt & Caber
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A prominent statue of Canada's first prime minister was vandalized on what would have been John A. Macdonald's 198th birthday.
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Some time overnight, vandals wrote phrases such as, "This is stolen land," "Murderer," "Colonizer," "Sir John A. Killer" and "F--- Canada," across the statue
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Susan DeLisle, a French/Algonquin resident involved with the Idle No More movement in Kingston, said local demonstrators are disappointed that someone would deface the monument.
"That's something that we don't condone," DeLisle said. "This is a peaceful movement. It's not the kind of thing we need and it doesn't help our cause."
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