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Knowing that the deep well of academia has been polluted by political correctness, I am not surprised by Prof. Barbara Messamore’s disappointing assessment of our first prime minister.
I speak as a Métis man whose ancestors helped to shape this country. James Bird was a fur trade stalwart; his son Dr. Curtis James Bird helped to write the list of rights for Louis Riel in 1869; his half-brother Jimmy-Jock was a Blackfoot war chief who served as translator at the 1877 treaty.
In both his private and public lives, John A. Macdonald was remarkable in his faithfulness and dedication to service: to call him “deeply flawed” in the second sentence is disingenuous and a wink to the woke.