So the Ontario Elementary Teachers Union has asked the school board to eliminate the name of Sir John A. MacDonald on all schools bearing his name in recognition of his mistreatment of the aboriginal students.
Hey teachers, to be consistent, please include Wilfred Laurier as he chose to refuse women the right to vote. Your feminist members deserve no less. As well, Mackenzie King incarcerated many Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
As an MP said " this is PC on steroids." Do you really think that a more user-friendly name like Louis Riel High or Chief Dan George High will in any way improve the abysmal academic state of our aboriginal youth?
As the Bard said "What's in a name, a rose by any other would smell as sweet."
Doug Strachan
Prince George
