The law school building on the campus of Queen's University is named the Sir John A. Macdonald Hall. Macdonald lived and worked in Kingston and represented the area in Parliament. He also played a key role in creating the residential school system.
For the past two months, the university has heard from more than 3,000 people in a public consultation process about whether or not to rename the building.“This decision is grounded in the university’s present-day academic mission and commitment to honour the values of equity, diversity, and inclusivity and to ensure all students, faculty, and staff feel welcome within the Queen’s community,” said Principal and Vice-Chancellor Patrick Deane.
KatherineDines The name 'Queens' is also upsetting to a few groups. Time for a review and public consultation.
Wow. The idiots of higher learning dont know the evolution of society and are unable to build new societal leadership representative of a politically correct society. Instead they want to tear down any semblance of where we came from, the journey to get here as Canadian society.
And they heard from 3000 people? Ah, there’s 35M Canadians!!!!
Ridiculous
We will embarrass our decedants just as our ancestors embarrass us, this is called moral progress, to try to erase the chronology of this does an injustice to our histories..
This will bring out the (not so) in the closet racists. Good for Queens.
Bloody Ridiculous!!! He did more good than bad. Too bad he wasn't PERFECT !!!
Dear QueensPrincipal, Mark Walters, lawtwitter, QueensuMedia, queensu: As with BrockUniversity, this is MORE about foreign investors pushing for extremist views like ShariaLaw, right? Mandatory facecoverings there yet? 🤔 NO ONE can remove our constitutional rights. 😊
The barbarians are in charge now. They are ignorant vandals, wreckers of history. And they disrespect their own ancestors who they sanctimoniously but falsely assume were their moral inferiors. Western civilization is circling the drain.
What a time to be alive ... This statue talk sure hits differently when it's your own family's history that we're talking about - it's so much more intense when it's personal 😯 MacDonald founded the country and ruled many of the marginalized groups with a heavy hand ...
Such a shame. To satisfy a group of people who won’t give a damn years from now. We are allowing a movement to try and change history, which can’t be changed. All this fuss won’t do a thing in changing people’s opinions. It must come from personal experiences & within.
What next, are they going to get rid of the Washington Redskins team name?
Reminds me of a corrupt communist regime!
Rename it “Stormy Daniels “ I’m sure that’ll be juuuuuuuust fine
I got one of these for my coin collection. The cynic in me thinks it’ll be worth more (at the rate his name and statues are disappearing).
Snowflakes 🙄
CTVToronto let me guess.....something non racist? pro-LGBT? who determines that? these days everything is offensive is it not?
I thought we were supposed to learn from our mistakes. How do we do that if you keep erasing them? Are the rest of us so perfect that we get to determine who is in our past? Is it then okay to erase the holocaust? No because we remember so it doesn’t happen again.
I’ll be getting a John A tattoo and pushing in the face of all these woke snowflakes
CTVToronto Will it be called the soaring eagle intersectionalist centre for humanity?
I’m not part of the woke brigade but fine, whatever. Doesn’t affect my life at all. If this is a big deal for some, so be it.
Woke Political Correctness at its best. Pathetic.
I am sure Queen Vic. did something offensive, so why no name change Because that would be ridiculous and judgemental! queens laughable
Off course...
George Orwell was truly prophetic
Cancel Culture
The University of Windsor should be next. Please sign and share this petition while the Board of Governors and decision-makers take time to decide.
You can change a name on a building or road etc to make some people feel better.. but you cannot erase our history, who he was and what he did to begin OUR great nation. Not everything done by others is always done with malice but somehow is framed that way by others CONTEXT.
It’s a start.
CTVToronto Really sad that Queens University does not believe in history. Why are they destroying the history of a great Canadian.
krismeloche For a University named after a Queen, in a city named after a King, it seems to me that they should be leading National discussions on history, colonialism and it's devastating results on First Nations. Name changing is pejorative without first, reeducation & forward movement.
What a waste of time and money.
What’s that going to cost?
This is so absurd.
Thank you Queens! We don’t need to keep idolizing some old dead guy - names of buildings don’t teach history, & we need to ensure that students know about Canada’s history without the bias of the people in power at the time!
Guess I won't be sending my kids their! 🖕
If people are so offended leave the country
CTVToronto 🇨🇦 while I understand that new information has been brought forth. I don’t think that removing names from history or buildings is a solution as no one is prefect & erasing someone from history erases the victims as well.History should include the full story
Snowflake university
I am surprised at Queen’s University Dean to sanction and agree to drop the name of Sir. John A. Mac Donald from law school building. It’s sad that academic yield to radical movements that do not want to face historical facts enough political correctness
Lmao dude literally who cares all these conservative snowflakes losing their shit over this like cmon
CTVToronto 😂😂😂 losers
defundtheU radicalization
We wouldn't be where we are today if not for some of these people! Yes things were drastically different then then now and yes there was stuff people did that now we know is bad and wrong but we can't change the past! Get over it!
Suggestion: 'Arthur Neville Chamberlain Hall.'
Shocking, all the white ppl are mad lol
Great, and for you white supremacists, hit me up and will give you quotes about what John A MacDonald said about 'Indians' as he orchestrated their children's manslaughter in residential schools with his conservative minister Duncan Campbell Scott. cdnpoli
I understand the reason for doing it, but John A Macdonald was the 1st prime minister of Canada. Doesn't seem right to remove it, and his name will never be removed from our minds. Again, 1st Prime Mnister of Canada.
OMG... How will they be able to educate people with different letters on some of the walls? The world is coming to an end.
Excellent news..they need a plaque besides and mention the reason..the reason that John was assh9le and put bounty on indigenous heads
But they’re still calling it Queen’s University.
Why would you want to do that?
If it was not for sir John A building are national railway most of Canada would be part of the USA
We’re letting the libs win damn
So what about “Queens?”
I see this news is going to trigger these settlers on here Renaming a Sir John A. Macdonald building is the least thing you can do to make things right.
I’m ashamed this is my alma mater.
That is a shame, he did so much for Canada
Why are we letting the snowflakes win?
where is the editorializing headlines as you do with your Trump coverage? Suggestion: 'Queen's University in sanctimonious and delusional wokeness will rename a building currently known as ...?
Very sad.... Sir John is such an important icon and the recriminations are over the top. He was not perfect...not sure who is but he made us.... he pulled this whole thing together 🇨🇦
And just like that, the atrocities of the past were changed and all the people of the world held hands and sang.
Great! is about time that a law hall building should be properly named as: Lawyer Pond Scum Hall.
Queen's plans on renaming the building 'Snowflake Hall'
Whatever.....knock yourself out .
Just name it after it's address to avoid controversy.
Rename it Gordon Downie hall.
Just plain rediculous.
Here is what the future will look like: No more names for government buildings such as schools, airports, court houses, etc. The replacement will be numbers and bar codes. 'I go to school 563248-1, which school do you go to?'
More useless white people acting like they care about the disadvantaged! Keep up the charade Queen's!
I quess they don’t realize that the university is named after the Monarch who’s empire was responsible for thousands of atrocities
Great! Let's keep the ball rolling.
nonsense
Liberals academia destroying themselves. Now let’s judge every famous person of the past by today’s standard and see if any can hold up.
This shit is getting out of hand!
CTVToronto Ok, that picture is Grant Hall. 😬🙄
Jumping on the train eh? No backbone, no integrity. You can't change history.
Absolutely ridiculous
The “Inclusive Hall for All Peoplekind”? 🤪
Those who deny history are destined to repeat it.
Great absolutely the right thing to do.
They should probably change the name of the university while there at it
Queen’s University is infested with overpaid highly privileged woke academics filled with pathetic self guilt. This is idiotic.
CTVToronto Chairman Mao Hall has a nice ring to it
Better not call it 'Queen's' University anymore. Have they not considered how many atrocities have been committed in the defense of the realm? I mean, particularly during the Victorian era ... WOW!
Anytime someone uses the term 'racialized' I know they have pronouns listed in their social media and are clowns.
Absolutely ridiculous!
Inmates rename asylum.
Lol. Change it to George Floyd Hall. Better to name it after a Black “saint”
Just saving the world one name at a time. Let's just earase everything in the past and start fresh in 2021, EVERYTHING from the past
Are gay men concerned that this racist university is named after them.
Of course they will. Shallow people can’t find the good in how Canada was developed. They can only see the bad. Such foolishness. It changes nothing.
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