Trudeau angered by toppling of statue to Sir John A. Macdonald

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Sept 20

A statue to Sir John A. Macdonald, the leading Father of Confederation and Canada's first Prime Minister, was toppled over the weekend by vandals and Montreal Police ignored the matter.  Prime Minister Trudeau was asked how he felt about it, and he said he felt angered.  The statue stood for 125 years.

It’s rich of Prime Minister Trudeau to be angered over the toppling and beheading of the Macdonald statue in Montreal.  After all, it was Trudeau who ordered the name of Hector Langevin scraped off the historic Langevin Block building on Parliament hill.  This bit of vandalism was committed by Trudeau for the same reason that the Macdonald statue was vandalized: the connection of those Fathers of Confederation to residential schools.

Trudeau may be angry, but he started that ball rolling.

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