Trying to Erase John A. Macdonald from History

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What I don't understand is what the end goal is with gestures like this. It reminds me of my friends who boycott Canada Day and shame those who celebrate because they're celebrating the colonization of indigenous people.

And I'm sympathetic to that point of view, I just don't understand how it's supposed to evolve practically. We can tear down the statues, turn Canada Day into a day of mourning, and so on, but I can't connect this delegitimization of the Canadian state with overall reconciliation progress. Because as far as I know, nobody's proposing the retraction of the Canadian state. So if that's the case, we're trying to remove the symbols but not the institutions - in a way, that seems more like a settler attempt at feeling better about themselves than about meaningful societal change.