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Originally Posted by Reaper
They're not removing it to pretend it never happened. They're removing it to make city hall a bit more welcoming for First Nations peoples. The statue is completely unavoidable if you want to go to city hall. It is about 10 feet from the doors and facing the path to said doors.
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Well let's not pretend that Johnny Mac was the only Canadian that viewed natives as savages. It was a widely held belief in those times. You can take down the statues but nobody can erase what happened and history is important regardless of how despicable or offensive it may be viewed today. Germans have had to live with Hitler and WWII and their kids have to go though education of WWII and they make no efforts to discount the Holocaust. Hiding from it benefits nobody.
You can view the statue as a part of our history or you can resent it but to me these things have significance. It's not like people are worshipping it or anything. Also lets not pretend that 99% of natives that walk past that statue don't know, or care about it, or notice it for that matter when entering the building. It's the 1% that this is catering to.