Part 2: Ontario teachers union and parents want the name Sir John A. Macdonald removed from schools
(Writer: Felix Ferlicchia, Editor: Wudi Fan) When I learned that Canadian parents and teachers support the idea of removing the name Sir John A. Macdonald from Canadian public schools, my reaction was, “The Sir John A. Macdonald debate is going to go viral.” One of the biggest reason for advocating the removal of this school’s name is that people disapprove the ways indigenous people were treated back in the says when Macdonald was our prime minister. My answer to this argument is: that was the past. Canada has become one of the most diverse countries in the world, and...
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