Friday's letters: Removing Oliver's name a slippery slope

Re. “Historical tributes to Oliver under fire,” Aug. 26
Frank Oliver may, or may not, have done the things rally organizer Marisa Peters claims he did.
If he did, a case can be made that they were reprehensible actions, but they must be considered in the times they occurred not in today’s very different world. The probability is that his views were the views of the prevailing majority of those days. Canada was founded in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries on similar views that