And while anti\u002Dcolonial renaming is pursued by activists, the poll suggests Canadians aren\u0027t concerned with many of the names criticized
Last summer, Pope Francis toured Canada and apologized for the “evil” and “catastrophic” involvement in church-run residential schools.“But now what we’re seeing, in this poll anyways, is this big shift to direct responsibility by the Catholic Church,” said Jedwab.
“I don’t get the sense that it’s been a grassroots movement, in terms of who undertakes to make them and where you hear them,” said Jedwab. But there was opposition to compulsory land acknowledgments before concerts, sporting events and conferences .While few people have ever publicly made a land acknowledgment, those who have are most likely young: 41 per cent of the youngest cohort polled said they have made one, which drops significantly to 20 per cent just one age bracket up and slides down to five per cent for those in the oldest age bracket of over 75.
Even among those who have publicly made a land acknowledgment, a third still didn’t feel it applied to their town or city and another third said they were not sure. Across all land acknowledgement questions, younger respondents were more supportive than older Canadians, and English speakers more supportive than French speakers. Quebec was a consistent outlier of disagreement on land acknowledgement.
There were 17 per cent of respondents who called for renaming the Colonial Building, 16 per cent for Laurier’s name to be removed, and 15 per cent each objecting to McGill and Confederation Bridge.
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