The Sir John A. Macdonald statue is expected to be moved out of City Park in Kingston, Ont. and into storage on Friday, after council voted to relocate it to the National Historic Site where Canada's first prime minister is buried.
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If anyone finds the $10 dollar bill offensive please send them to me.
Only racists will find them offensive.
$100 and $50 bills work for me too.
Just put up a McDonald’s sign in its place…
Taco Bell and three seashells.
We might as well change the name of the country and dismantle government while they’re at it. We can’t change the past and it’s getting a little extreme now
@yourmanwatson maybe your just old grandpa
@Alex Dietz what makes you think youd survive lol.
@Pojomania hahaha whatever. We are becoming a pathetic vassal state.
“If you’re weak, you’re backwards”
Oh but they have changed the name already…. “The Country we now call CANADA.”
@Joe Struthers vassal to who?
Maybe the Kingston council should move themselves elsewhere
Victoria, B.C.
how about somalia,lots of “diversity” there
You should move yourself to another country if you don’t like this one.
So should you…. who say we want you here to destroy more?
This is absurd
OH LOOK ANOTHER RACIST CON VOTER
Removing a statue changes nothing but appease the liberal voters.
yup, getting tired of it. need the west to join together and take care of each other.
What part of the survivors’ speeches about residential schools did you not understand?
@Dennis Chen you do realize he’s still in history books right?
@Internet Drifter curriculums change over time. You do realize that right? For example. many Canadians are not taught about residential schools in pre post secondary history classes.
I wouldn’t count on that happening…… now he Will alway be remembered……
Hiding history so we can forget and repeat it
@canadianreserve Kingston. Place of prominence. SO FUNNY LOL im in stitches
@Dennis Chen lol
@canadianreserve Right, put it in a dark corner where nobody ever sees it. That’s a great way to learn from our history – relegate it to the shadows – sarcasm
@Dave Atkinson When did your history class go look at statues ?
@Dennis Chen it a place full of two faced bigot, just like the one who are wanting the statute down. , They are the worst two faced hypocrites you would ever meet
If we keep erasing history, we’re doomed to repeat it. Makes a lot more sense to learn from our mistakes as opposed to hiding them.
@CryptoPenguin wrong
@Haman Sing lol
@Alec Oram Well you better not give candy to your kids then, you never know, might be a slippery slope to them becoming a crack addict.
Slipper slope fallacy I think it’s called.
But he’s still on the ten dollar bill
Right on!👍
Don’t tell me these Canadian want to cancel culture also. These monuments are reminders of that era, not idols. So what the hell is the problem. Leave it there
Statues are idols. That’s their entire point.
@Rebecca He basically established the nation… you know the one you live in now, and all other Canadians.
dude.. it’s just as bad up here. Someone designs a system. others corrupt it and he gets blamed for it. 30 years from now all of our past accomplishments are screwed when eating Beef is taboo. Judging things in 1800 to 2021 standards is stupid.
@SilentBudgie You’re the one idolizing. A statue is a statue. If I take a photograph of something does that mean it’s an idol? (no it’s not)
@Strongfp She prob doesn’t realize he’s on her money too lol
Because nothing satisfies bullies like appeasement. I think it was Neville Chamberlain who said that
Lol. Like you even knew the statue was there before they decided to move it
@yourmanwatson I grew up in Kingston, thanks for asking, although obviously it was irrelevant to the point.
I dont consider myself Canadian much anymore. I just live in the country and obey the laws and do my part as a human being. This is a shame because as a child I loved everything about the country, in fact – I love what it was, not what it is.
I just turned 71. I’m just an old stock Canadian. Your post is exactly how I feel. The whole population is hyphenated now. It’s a hollow shadow of what it was. I’m glad I’m old. We’re laughed at by the world and Trudeau in his little bubble can’t grasp that fact. We’re nothing but a dumping ground living on a credit card that will reach it’s limit soon.
@SilentBudgie Just curious if you have gained any legal privileges or financial incentives around the same time that you learned to love Canada again…
@Xanulus let me lower my self to your intellect…..I know you are but what am I?
@SilentBudgie Apologies mean nothing.
@Adam Talloran bingo
The day has come my fellow true Canadians. Time to be the opposite of nice.
whaaaaa
So the day has come to show our true selves, yeah that’s kind of the point here. Quit covering up the bad stuff and playing make believe.
@dustigenes true selves? You sound like you might have some personal issues that need “sorting”.
@Christopher Robin Nope
The slope is always slippery.. it doesn’t take a genius to know that.
We’re almost at the bottom of the slope. Pointing stuff out did nothing. No one cared. We live in Jonestown against our will.
ok joker
@c3p you have a lot to learn in life, your statement makes it painfully obvious.
Jesus Christ … he had almost nothing to do with the residential schools. He just signed the papers to allow it and then later even criticized it.
It’s genuinely sad because he most likely regretted his decision.
The boarding schools were meant to uplift the Indians from the stone age to the present.
They also learned a written language so their history could be preserved.
@JoeI see you drank the Kool-aid.
@Joe care to site your sources on that?
@Joe lol Indians are from India smarty
Instead of learning from history, let’s just hide or destroy everything and pretend it never happened. The same thing ISIS does.
Will Council also be voting to demolish the Catholic Churches in Kingston as well? MacDonald may have sanctioned the schools, but the church ran them.
Politicians fighting hard to remove the statue of dead person while completely ignoring issues plaguing canada currently.
So may be we all leave Canada- where do you draw line.
To some this is an issue that just suddenly came up while for others it’s as much as generational. The righting of a beloved yet listing ship. O Canada you got this Change remains inevitable and world wide