Viewpoint: Beware the slippery slope of removing historic names

By Premier Brad Wall
For what they are worth, I offer words of caution to the group of Ontario teachers and perhaps others who apparently wish to remove Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from schools.
John A. Macdonald used the word ‘savages’ to describe Aboriginal peoples. What is so unacceptable as to be obscene today was tragically the stuff of daily parlance then. It is a terrible but undeniable feature of our history that dims any light that shines on the memory of our first pr