Should we be renaming places and things in Ottawa-Gatineau?

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Originally Posted by lrt's friend

As we remove commemorations relating to important historic figures, the publicity surrounding these removals encourages a predominant one dimensional view of history. So, Sir John A. MacDonald's main achievement becomes the creation of Residential Schools. That has already been achieved with Sir Hector Langevin, and we are well on our way to having a similar view of Egerton Ryerson. Has this really encouraged a deeper view of these people's lives? I don't think so.

We can argue to the contrary, but highly publicized removal of commemorations discourages people from examining history themselves. These people have been discredited. There is nothing more worth knowing.

I don't think that people will forget that Sir John A MacDonald was also responsible to a large extent for achieving Confederation and building the CPR. Everybody is tarnished in one way or another.