Canadian Politics Today

Okay. What’s your point then? Should he change it to appeal to more people or not?

Yes, that's capitalism.  My point is...should we voice our opinions for him to have the owner change it back to the old Sir John name?

This goes to the larger question of what do we do with Sir Johnny Mac and everything we've named after him?  Should we name new bridges and streets after him?  Is Sir John A Mac a national hero, or a national disgrace?  I think he's both.  But he's our history, for Canadians including aboriginals, and comes with the good and bad.

It's complicated.  He was a man of his times, the residential schools were supported by Parliament and the different Christian churches across Canada at the time, who meant well in their minds but yet were terribly patronizing & colonial to natives and didn't take many of their views on the matter seriously.  Over the decades the school system became something even worse it seems.

Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi were great leaders, but they also (allegedly) cheated on their wives and were not the best fathers...so should we be venerating any political figures by naming things after them? We're all human, good and bad.  What to do... so it's a larger question of what do we do about even publicly owned buildings etc named after Sir John A?