John A. Macdonald statues: we can’t hide from history, but we can learn from it

I don't want to justify Sir John A. Macdonald’s treatment of Aboriginal peoples, but who in history, by today's standards, has clean hands? For example, Christian churches, for centuries, imposed unspeakable atrocities on so-called heretics (people who dared to disagree with church teachings). Th...

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