As far as the naming thing goes, many of the names are just old heads of church. These weren't people who played a major role in founding the country. At the time they were celebrated for Christianizing the savages, which used to be seen as a very high end goal. Now we see this for what it was, stripping another society of their culture. So why do we need to keep the old names? Why do we have secular structures/institutions named after religious figures in the first place?
And why were we naming anything after Langevin. He was a disgraced politician who had to leave politics due to a major corruption scandal. Even before society had realized the horrors of the residential school system, Langevin had been disgraced.
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