Anger at Sir John A. misdirects our energy – Telegraphjournal.com
Should efforts to exile Canada’s pre-eminent founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, to the scrapheap of history be allow. to succeed, No. Anger at monuments and memorials misunderstands our history and misdirects our energy. It is not wNh the dead but wNh the living that lies the responsibility to real. further the promise of Canada. This is why, for example, Senator Murray Sinclair’s call to celebrate Indigenous heroes, rather than vilifying Sir John, strikes the right balance.
Those who s.k to expunge Sir John’s name from schools and monuments s. our history as a caricature fill. solely with racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, militarism, genocide and environmental destruction. These are never weigh., however, against our impressive record of constitutional evolution, our incredible feats of nation-building infrastructure and institutions, our reconciliation of contending cultures, languages and religions and our tradNion of sacrifice to preserve the values that we thought most important.
