Equality

As a non-Indigenous Canadian, I share the belief that there is no place for the statue of John A. MacDonald in Victoria Park, or in our city. I can appreciate that he was a founder of this country, but the heft of his legacy -- and this country's -- is colonialism. I am done hearing the tired arguments about this being "our history" and the "past is the past." Shamefully, colonialism is not in the past for the Indigenous peoples on this land: it is their present reality. We are so far from being where we need to be in…