Hoarding covering Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen’s Park to be removed [Video]

Hoarding that has covered a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the grounds of the Ontario legislature for the past five years is set to soon be removed.

The statue of Canada’s first prime minister has been boxed up since 2020, when it was vandalized.

The monument was one of many to be targeted across the country amid anti-racism protests and as Canadians grappled with the history of residential schools.

Macdonald is considered an architect of the country’s notorious residential school system that took Indigenous children from their families in an effort …