Canadian moonbats answer to the Confederate statues.

Via The Nectarine:

An anonymous group of “anti-colonial vandals” has claimed responsibility for spray-painting the Sir John A. Macdonald monument in downtown Montreal.

The group says it vandalized the statue “in continued opposition to the far-right groups and politicians who actively defend a legacy of white supremacy and racism.”

“Macdonald statues should be removed from public space and instead placed in archives or museums, where they belong as historical artifacts,” the group said. “Public space should celebrate collective struggles for justice and liberation, not white supremacy and genocide.”

Montreal police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron said the police force will investigate the incident.
Not the First Sir John A. Statue Incident

This incident follows in the heels of the national attention put towards Victoria city council, which earlier this week removed the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald that stood in front of it.

Mayor Lisa Helps says the decision to remove the monument of one of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation is part of the city’s ongoing reconciliation process with the Indigenous people.

“We will remove the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from the front doors of city hall so that the family members and other Indigenous people do not need to walk past this painful reminder of colonial violence each time they enter the doors of their municipal government,” Helps said.

While this is interesting, many members from across the political aisle such as Andrew Scheer, Catherine Mckenna, and even members of PEI’s Native Council have come out against the removal of the statue. While their reasonings differ, one view is fairly consistent. Firstly, that we should learn from the mistakes of our past leaders, and secondly that these people were multi-faceted individuals, making it far harder to justify their removal from public spaces.

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