Sir John A. Macdonald statue set to be removed from Victoria City Hall on Saturday

The statue of Sir John A. MacDonald outside the Victoria Town Hall is expected to come down early on Saturday.

The city moved nothing from the base, moving to the truck and transporting it to the warehouse did not say anything. A temporary fence was placed around the statue on Friday.

On Thursday night, parliamentarians voted for a 7-1 vote to cancel the statue of Canada's first prime minister, established in 1982.

COUN. Mr. Jeff Young is contesting because it requires more advice. Other members also expressed concern about the lack of consultation - they learned about clearance planning only when they appeared on the agenda of the committee on Tuesday.

As part of the settlement process, the three parliamentarians and representatives of indigenous peoples met last year decided to cancel the statue. They cited McDonald 's involvement in the establishment of a home - school system that would bring aboriginal children away from home and get abused.

Mayor Victoria Lisa Help said that if the city is sincere in the efforts of reconciliation, then the statue must be removed so indigenous peoples strongly encounter a painful warning of colonial violence every time they enter the city hall Not to be able to do. The countries of Esquimalt Nation and Songhees agree

Young thinks the community has the right to participate in the discussion. If the statue is moved, other people believe that history should not be deleted, it must be rearranged, but re - edited for educational purposes in the spirit of reconciliation.

John Dunn who made a bronze statue in 1981 said he was honored if his sculpture could stimulate the argument about violence caused by Aboriginal people. "I am not convinced that removing sculptures is the best way to achieve this," he wrote to the mayor.

"These thoughts are uncomfortable for us today and they make us angry.We do not like genocide, infestation of smallpox, theft, racial discrimination.They of theft and repression they suffered It is proportional to the degree, "Dann wrote.

He makes it possible for people to see the statue as a general human expression rather than as a specific person. "Here you can see a kind of confidence that is not affected by vulnerability.The pride does not have humility, not humor There is McDonald's and our strengths and weaknesses. "

People who oppose the banished statue are planning to protest at the city hall on Saturday. Facebook pages sponsored by B.C. Proud and Aaron Gunn are encouraging people to witness "shameful behavior".

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.

When we entered the era of truth and reconciliation with indigenous peoples, the time has come to reconsider how the symbols were handled in the past. We offered some discussion from the stairs of the Victoria Town Hall to support dismantling of the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald, the first Canadian Prime Minister. First and foremost, nothing is always there - it is not a historical statue. Its history dates back to 1982, which was announced by John A. MacDonald's Historical Society. Should gifts be displayed forever? Sculptor John Dunn wishes that his creations return to the front of the city hall, and that it is "artwork that represents all humanities."