Madonald's Policies Have Resulted in Great Harm for All of Canada

Canadians are becoming increasingly aware of Macdonald's crimes against Indigenous peoples and of the ongoing suffering those crimes have caused, which is reason enough to remove his statue from public places.

But it needs to be said that his legacy has also shamed and diminished Canada as a whole. We are seen by the rest of the world as a country that is guilty of cultural genocide and attempted physical genocide.

Also, we are are infected as a nation by systemic racism, ongoing division, and the loss of the important gifts that Indigenous people would have shared with the rest of us had they been allowed to do so.

In short, the whole country bears the shame and the harm of Macdonald's legacy.