[CaptainCrunch]

Its funny because John A is just a whole bag of good and bad. He was the modern father of confederation, he was the architect of what we have now. Even though it was viewed as crazy at the time he extended this country.


But he was also responsible for the above, he was a primary figure in the CPR scandal, he put in the Chinese Head Tax, had Riel executed.



I agree, with a lot of people that we've now done the whole back seat driving of history where we're judging peoples acts based on modern sentiment and sensibility, and that people and life was completely different back then, and we really should be judging people based on that time period and their education and how they think.


However the danger of that, is that you can almost exonerate slavery by doing that, because it was acceptable not only in the States, but world wide.



You can look at the holocaust and say, to an extent that anti-semitism was world wide, and yeah the Germans murdered 6 million, but it wasn't their fault.


On the John A McDonald thing, why not just leave the statue and put up a plaque that lays all of his accomplishments and negative actions with the statue?



I mean isn't the current action of removing statues etc, just creating a wider divide between communities?