Victoria mayor says John A. Macdonald statue will be relocated to public space

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald that was removed from in front of Victoria’s city hall will be relocated to another public place in the city, according to Mayor Lisa Helps.
City council voted earlier this month to remove the monument to Canada’s first prime minister as part of the city’s reconciliation process with First Nations.
Helps, who called Macdonald a “key architect of the Indian residential school system,” said the statue served as a painful reminder of c