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Mary Larose, Aylmer
Langevin was hardly the only guilty party
Ottawa Council has been asked rename Langevin Street due to Hector Langevin’s role in the expansion of the residential school system after Confederation. Council should consider several issues.
One is that Langevin expanded an existing system and prime ministers after John A. Macdonald maintained it and expanded it further. Another is that other politicians did things to First Nations that were even worse.
One of Macdonald’s Conservative successors made attendance compulsory, for instance. Laurier ignored the strong advice of the government’s chief medical adviser, resulting in thousands of Indigenous children dying from TB. Under Mackenzie King, experiments were done on residential school children at the same time Nazis were being tried for the similar crimes. And Pierre Trudeau’s 1969 White Paper tried to eliminate First Nations reserves and treaty rights.