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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/0...-c_a_23498763/


I'm not sure where to stand on this. John A was clearly a dbag but on the other hand, we can't ignore his role in Canadian history or pretend like the values and norms of 1879 are even remotely similar today.

Would this decision have been made had there not been a strong movement to remove Confederate monuments throughout the southern Unites States? I wonder.

I don't have a problem with this, but in large part because I think it is a good idea for societies to move away from the practice of human veneration. We can honour our past and those figures from history who have shaped our society without building idols of them.