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A man places flowers on a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald after demonstrators threw pink paint on it at Queen’s Park in Toronto on Saturday, July 18, 2020. The man said it was disappointing to see the statue vandalized and the flower were to show his respect to Sir John A. Macdonald. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Carlos Osorio
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 …
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