Six ways to erase Sir John A. Macdonald in time for his 208th birthday

The piece below about Canada’s first and arguably greatest Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, a man who saved more indigenous lives than any other Canadian, was written by Patrice Dutil and published by a National newspaper on January 23, 2023.

It needs to be read alongside the two other essays cited below that also offer a far more nuanced and historically grounded account of the life and times of Canada’s founding Prime Minister than the narrow, defamatory, and decontextualized discussions by critics consumed with woke presentism:

Sir John A. Macdonald Versus the Historically Challenged. Robert MacBain, September 2, 2017.

Sir John A. Macdonald Saved More Native Lives Than Any Other Prime Minister. Greg Piasetzki, November 27, 2020.

Patrice Dutil is a Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson) and a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. His opinion piece is re-posted here with his kind permission.