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Daily Answer | Mayor of Lisa said that the statue of the former prime minister is removed from the front door of the Victoria Town Hall as a gesture of settlement with indigenous peoples. What do you think?

Mayor Lisa Helps said that the statue of former Prime Minister John A. MacDonald was removed from the front door of the Victoria Town Hall as a sign of reconciliation with indigenous peoples.

McDonald may become Canada's first prime minister, but Hamptus said he is also an "important architect" of the residential school system. The image will be saved

"We disassemble the statue of Lord John A. Macdonald from the gate of the city hall so that family members and other indigenous people do not have to go through this painful colonial violence reminder every time they enter the gate of the city Say

In a speech at the House of Representatives in 1883, McDonalds called indigenous people "barbarians" and claimed to withdraw from the influence of indigenous children's parents.

"When the school is in a protected area, the child lives with his parents, parents are barbarians.I can learn literacy, but my way of thinking and training is Indian.He can read and write savages It is necessary for children in India who is the dean of the department to not be influenced by parents as much as possible The only way to do so is to acquire white customs and way of thinking in central training school "McDonald said to Congress

If the city council approves the proposal on Thursday, McDonald's statue will be deleted on Saturday.

A few days before the incident, I was surprised that the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald, founded in 1981, will be removed from the place of Victoria Town Hall since 1982. I have not been told by Sir Joseph, McDonald's Association of British Columbia who asked for sculpture by Sir Joseph, neither consultation nor consultation. I spent most of the time I spent in Italy over the past five years, and I have not kept up-to-date on all issues. I do not know that this bronze is controversial at all.

In Canada, due to its role in the massacre of indigenous culture, Sir John MacDonald, the founding prime minister of the country, became the focus of opponents. Victoria City recently announced that he would remove the portrait from outside the city hall and the statues of McDonald's of Montreal and Regina were pressured to rebuild his legacy. In a recent article on Guardian 's protest at Oxford, novelist Amit Chaudhuri wanted to know. "When I can ignore the statues and symbols, is it difficult to laugh at it?" Chowdhury remembered that in the early 1990s he went to O'Dell college students and was old and old Students from have a monarchic enthusiasm, their conservatism ... incredible, but very interesting. " During the visit, he regarded former British parliamentary member Enoch Powell as a synonym "without retreating" implicitly in the spirit of the fascinating "blood river" of the previous generation.