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Peter McKenna: Where is message about reconciliation? – The Guardian

Why honour, sanitize or normalize Amherst’s awful record by naming national park after him?

August 25, 2017
 After three separate opportunities and prodding from me, and much loose talk about “reconciliation” with Indigenous people in Canada, Lockerby still refused to answer a very simple question about whether he would support the Mi’kmaq of P.E.I. in their legal case involving their ownership of unceded and ancestral land at the Mill River golf resort. I think that, in and of itself, is especially telling.
Moreover, I would like Lockerby to put himself in the shoes of the Mi’kmaq for a change and ask himself how he would feel if he had to see the name of a British general – who engaged in germ warfare against other Indigenous peoples of North America and never once stepped foot on P.E.I. – adorning a national park in this province.

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