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Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson

Toronto corporate lawyer, columnist, and founder of Save Our History, campaigning to restore Sir John A. Macdonald statues.

Oct 9, 2026

1:45
And, you know, we can't go all the way back, but let's be proud of what, of who built our country."
1:50
That's the, that is the objective.
1:53
And the Macdonald statues are simply a means to that end.
1:57
Let's be proud again.
1:58
Let's be proud again.
1:59
We're n- look, we're not perfect.
2:00
No one is.
2:11
Well, I think you're right, but we have a n- number of school boards, just to digress for a second, who are saying, "You know what? The education system is, is all white, and we have to change that." I disagree with that, but, I mean, you've seen that as well, where we have unelected officials saying, "Oh-ho-ho, you know, colonialism, we got to get rid of this."
0:47
What do these people want, these activists, is to try to get rid of our history.
0:52
Well, good question.
0:53
I'm not so sure what they want because they know what they don't like.
0:57
They just don't really know what they do like.
0:59
And they've got a very, very narrow minded view of things.
1:04
Listen, history is messy.
1:07
Most of it when you open up a textbook, it's war, disease, conquest, all of that stuff.
2:23
They call themselves Indians.
0:24
What happened in Picton, Ontario?
0:26
Well, they had a statue.
0:29
They put it up about 10 years ago.
0:31
Sir John A. Macdonald.
0:32
It was a huge, huge local effort.
0:34
Fundraising did not cost the city or the municipality a dime.
0:39
They put it up because that's where Macdonald started his career, believe it or not.
1:39
what kind of protesters? They say, we don't like Canada? We are immigrants to Canada, but we don't like Canada, or we want to change it? What's going on?

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