John A. Redeemed!
Canada's first prime minister will be unboxed at Queen's Park and it appears the TDSB will not be changing any school names that include past Canadian statesmen
“They spent over one hundred thousand dollars deciding if they should change the name of three schools at a time when they were threatening to lay off teachers.” – Education Minister Paul Calandra
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On Tuesday, Ontario’s Board of Internal Economy, which manages the grounds of the Ontario legislature at Queen’s Park in Toronto, announced it will remove the plywood box covering the statue of Sir John A. MacDonald, which has enshrouded the monument to Canada’s first prime minister since 2020.
I wrote about the boxing up of Sir John A. last month in my piece “Free John”: Daniel Tate and the cover up of Canada's founding father. Since then, it appears that the efforts of Canadian patriots like Daniel Tate (the guy who spray painted “Free John” on the plywood covering Sir John A.) have paid off. The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald at Queen’s Park in Toronto will indeed be free!
Tristan Hopper was bang on in his take in the National Post when he wrote of Canada’s embrace of the social justice practice of vandalizing and destroying statues which commemorate founding fathers and other statesmen associated with the colonial era: “The trend began in earnest in 2020 as Canadian cities were hit by ‘defund the police’ protests inspired by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It then became supercharged in the summer of 2021, following a B.C. First Nation’s announcement that 215 anomalies turned up in a radar survey of the former Kamloops Indian Residential school were the unmarked graves of children.”
Two of the most pathetic events in modern history: 1) The George Floyd debacle 2) The unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools debacle. Both will most likely be studied for years to come for their far-reaching societal ramifications catalyzed by the viral spread of salaciously false details and in the former case, video footage with bad social justice optics. The fallout in both cases was nothing short of social panic which reinforced the undeniability of leftist social justice narratives, and therefore equally undeniable was the expectation to accept leftist social justice imperatives (such as statue removals and name changes of public places and institutions).
But alas, there were no children murdered and cruelly thrown into clandestine graves at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops B.C., or any other former residential school for that matter. And no, George Floyd did not die from asphyxiation because of a knee on his back/neck area. If the latter were true, Floyd would not have had the air in his lungs it took for all the yelling he did while resisting arrest and being constrained by officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd’s autopsy ultimately demonstrated a high level of illicit drugs in his system at the time of his death, but yet Chauvin was charged for a murder that appears far more likely to have been a drug overdose.
The George Floyd incident occurred in 2020, and the unmarked graves hoax the year after in 2021. In Canada between the years 2020 and 2022, thirteen statues were destroyed or removed by leftist social justice activists. All of those statues commemorated founding fathers or important figures tied to Canada’s colonial heritage. Seven of those were sculptures of Sir John A. Macdonald. Along with a few of the other usual suspects who shared company with Canada’s first prime minister. Among them were Egerton Ryerson, and the British royal monarchs, Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Victoria.
Hopper reminds us that during the derangement of the social justice inspired George Floyd/unmarked graves social panic, Ryerson University was renamed Toronto Metropolitan University (2022). He also points out that in 2023 “Ottawa’s Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway was renamed to Kichi Zībī Mīkan, an Algonquin word roughly meaning ‘river path’,” and in 2024 Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto was renamed Sankofa Square. Even though Henry “Dundas was an abolitionist and a key figure in an 18th century British push to abolish the slave trade.”
Since the unboxing of Sir John A. in Queen’s park appears to be the first time a government has undone any of the damage inflicted by the decolonizing social justice left during the height of the aforementioned social justice panic, it can indeed be counted as a major victory for the sensible and historically literate citizens who do not hate or wish to disassociate from their cultural heritage. Go Canada! (Note I have said nothing about elbows).
And further, more winning, again from the Ontario government, comes in the form of legislation brought forward by the Ontario Minister of Education that will not allow school boards to unilaterally change the names of schools without permission from the minister. Education Minister Paul Calandra does not approve of changing the names of schools which honour past Canadian statesmen like Sir John A. MacDonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas.
“They (the TDSB) spent over one hundred thousand dollars deciding if they should change the name of three schools at a time when they were threatening to lay off teachers.” - Education Minister Paul Calandra
Minister Calandra wrote in a post on X in regards to the TDSB and his Supporting Children and Students Act, that he “should be able to move quickly when it is very clear that a school board has lost its way. The legislation I introduced today, if passed, would allow me to do that.”
In an email from Daniel Tate’s IntegrityTO newsletter, concerning Minister Calandra’s proposed legislation, Tate wrote of the need to never let radical activists erase Canadian identity again. From the newsletter:
“With a majority government in place, this legislation is poised to pass—bringing a decisive end to a deeply divisive chapter in which activist trustees, led by TDSB Chair Neethan Shan, attempted to erase the names of Canada’s historical pioneers without due regard for academic or historical integrity.
At a time when schools across Toronto are facing crumbling infrastructure and mounting fiscal pressures, we welcome this moment of moral clarity from the Minister. The TDSB has been veering off course, hijacked by ideological agendas and neglecting the foundational purpose of public education. It’s time to get back to basics.”
Agreed!
For more on Daniel Tate, and the trouble he is in over his spray-painting “Free John” on the soon-to-be-removed plywood box covering the statute of Sir John A. in Queen’s park, read “Free John”: Daniel Tate and the cover up of Canada's founding father.
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Its early yet, as soon as the vandals return to Queens Park we will see how serious Calandra is. And if he were really brave , Calandra would make it retroactive and return the name of Sir John A to school boards that erased Sir John A. Beginning with dysfunctional Waterloo and others.
“ Catalyze”. Love it!
The possible name change of schools and taking down statues is a globalist game to erase history.