“[Canada] is an imperfect country, but it is still a great country, just as John A. Macdonald was an imperfect man but was still a great leader.”

— Jason Kenney

On the renaming of Langevin School in Calgary to Riverside School https://globalnews.ca/news/7912688/alberta-indigenous-history-jason-kenney-cancel-culture/ (1 June 2021) <br class="br">2020s

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