NDP MP celebrates toppling of John A. Macdonald statue in Hamilton

On the eve of a pandemic election, the NDP's MP for Hamilton Centre, Matthew Green, took to Twitter to celebrate the toppling of a statue of Canada's first Prime Minister in Gore Park by a crowd of 'Unity' demonstrators.

Statues dedicated to important figures in founding of Canada, including its first Prime Minister have become more controversial, and politically unacceptable to some due to their complicated legacies.

John A. MacDonald statues have been vandalized and/or removed from other Canadian cities, including Victoria, Regina, and Montreal amid a 'reckoning' over his archaic views and treatment of Indigenous Canadians, and his role in shaping Canada's system of residential schools.

Hamilton RCMP are investigating the vandalism and toppling of the statue, but no arrests have been made at time of writing. It's also unclear at this time whether or not the city of Hamilton intends to restore and return the statue to its place.  

As The Post Millennial previously reported, John A. Macdonald has been scrubbed from Canada's national archives, called "outdated" and "offensive."

An educational website run by Canada's national archives was deleted after management decided that the site was no longer necessary in a "diverse and multicultural" Canada.

According to Blacklock's Reporter, the archives called the website "redundant" and "offensive"—something historian Barry Wilson calls "short-sighted."