Should we be renaming places and things in Ottawa-Gatineau?

[lrt's friend]

We are facing sad, sad, times when we want to erase our history. History is full of warts and that is part of what makes it interesting. As we sanitize it, there is nothing left worth remembering. We end up losing the context of history when big parts of it become taboo.

I find it odd how we want to erase Sir John A. MacDonald when we are in the nation's capital. Without him, Canada would not likely exist. We change Sir John A parkway, so why would we retain the Sir Georges Etienne Cartier Parkway? The next step is to erase all the Fathers of Confederation, and on and on it goes.

This is a slippery slope, because 'colonialism' has become vogue. But doesn't 'colonialism' apply to everybody who is not indigenous? So nothing is worth remembering unless it is indigenous.