By Allison Jones and Liam Casey Hoarding that has covered a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald at the Ontario legislature for the past five years will soon be taken down, a move that will cause pain and anger for Indigenous communities, the lone First Nation representative at Queen’s Park predicted. The statue of Canada’s first prime minister has been boxed up since 2020, when it was vandalized amid a wave of protests across the country that took aim at Macdonald as Canadians grappled with the history of residential schools. Childrens’ shoes were placed at the site after the discovery of possible unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools. Macdonald is considered an architect of the country’s notorious residential school system that took Indigenous children from their families…
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