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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Jason Kenney went on a lengthy tirade against "cancel culture" at a press conference today after hearing that the Calgary Board of Education changed the name of a high school that was named after Hector-Louis Langevin, one of the architects of the residential school program.
"If we want to get into cancelling every figure in our history who took positions on issues at the time, that we now judge harshly and rightly in historical retrospective, but if that’s the new standard, then I think almost the entire founding leadership of our country gets cancelled."
Jason comes soooo close to hitting the mark with that comment.
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The Famous Five were champion of eugenics, and supported legislation that saw thousands of indigenous women, “imbeciles,” etc. sterilized. Do we change the names of all the schools named after Nellie McClung, Emily Murphy, and the rest of the Famous Five? Close the Famous Five Centre at Heritage Park?