{"id":88711,"date":"2017-08-29T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/spend-time-honouring-indigenous-heroes-rather-than-debating-macdonald-murray-sinclair.html"},"modified":"2017-08-29T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:35:04","slug":"spend-time-honouring-indigenous-heroes-rather-than-debating-macdonald-murray-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/spend-time-honouring-indigenous-heroes-rather-than-debating-macdonald-murray-sinclair.html","title":{"rendered":"Spend time honouring Indigenous heroes rather than debating Macdonald: Murray Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says tearing down tributes that are considered offensive to Indigenous Peoples would be &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; because it smacks of anger, not harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Murray Sinclair says the debate over whether to remove Sir John A. Macdonald&#8217;s name from Ontario schools is time that would be better spent discussing the need to honour and elevate Indigenous heroes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Most oppose renaming schools named after Macdonald<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sinclair&#8217;s remarks come after an Ontario teachers union passed a controversial motion calling for the rechristening of schools named after Canada&#8217;s first prime minister, accusing Macdonald of advocating Indigenous genocide. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Canadian Press, Sinclair calls that approach a recipe for fighting and rancour.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there are no plans to remove Macdonald&#8217;s name from buildings or sites that are in the purview of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In June, Trudeau decided to remove the name of Hector-Louis Langevin, a father of Confederation and architect of the residential school system, from the Ottawa building that houses the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/murray-sinclair-tributes-1.4266983?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says tearing down tributes that are considered offensive to Indigenous Peoples would be &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; because it smacks of anger, not harmony. Sen. Murray Sinclair says the debate over whether to remove Sir John A. Macdonald&#8217;s name from Ontario schools is time that would be better spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-88711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}