Yeah! I'm sure it had nothing to do with cultural genocide:
“When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men." 1879
It was wall because of his drinking.
He freely confessed on record in Parliament!
Also, there is a difference between learning history and celebrating a historical figure. Germans teach about Adolf Hitler in history class. They don't build statues in to honour him.
Anyone who knows MacDonald's history acknowledges that he was a co-author of calculated and systematic cultural genocide of the indigenous peoples to sole what he referred to in his own words as the "Indian problem."
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/disco...nisters/pmportrait/Pages/item.aspx?PersonId=1
"Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John A. Macdonald immigrated to Upper Canada with his parents when he was five years old."
And to add insult to injury, this co-author of the cultural genocide of Canada's indigenous peoples was a first-generation immigrant from Scotland.
To be clear, I see immigrants as our equals. But for an immigrant to come to Canada to then bring cultural genocide on its indigenous peoples in the name of assimilating them to the cultures of a people who at that time would mostly have been first, second, or third generation immigrants at least on the English side only adds insult to injury.
