A Leger poll conducted for Postmedia found that a majority of Canadians oppose the trend towards purging memorials to figures with \u0027questionable\u0027 biographies
The Brampton school is far from the first institution to scrub itself of Macdonald’s name in recent years. Four separate statues of Macdonald have come down since 2018: Three due to city council votes and one due to “Defund the Police” protesters in Montreal. In the same period, several schools have removed Macdonald’s name, including one in Pickering, Ont.
When asked whether Canada should use less anarchic means to remove memorials to “racist” historical figures, the poll respondents were surprisingly divided. Only 47 per cent expressed full-throated opposition to the notion, against 34 per cent who supported it.Article content The 2021 discovery of unmarked graves at residential school sites across Canada shed an unprecedented amount of public attention on the harms that Macdonald’s policies imposed. An Abacus Data poll conducted for the Assembly of First Nations at the time found that 58 per cent of respondentsbuildings and institutions carrying the monikers of “architects of the residential school system.”
But while 77 per cent of Canadians supported a national day of remembrance for the Residential School victims, responses became far more complex when the question was turned towards whether it should define the legacy of Macdonald. Fifty nine per cent of respondents reported that Macdonald’s role as the Father of Canada “outweighs his role in the creation of residential schools.”
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