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It seems all too easy to have anyone from history cancelled these days - Sir John A. Macdonald has been maligned as a racist, bigot, and architect of cultural genocide. The reality is that he put in place a smallpox vaccination program that helped save the lives of thousands of indigenous Canadians. Is the fact that there is no push back against these cancellations the result of a weak, ill-informed media, and education system? Greg Piasetzki is a lawyer and historian - he joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss this for Three Minutes.
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It seems all too easy to have anyone from history cancelled these days - Sir John A. Macdonald has been maligned as a racist, bigot, and architect of cultural genocide. The reality is that he put in place a smallpox vaccination program that helped save the lives of thousands of indigenous Canadians. Is the fact that there is no push back against these cancellations the result of a weak, ill-informed media, and education system? Greg Piasetzki is a lawyer and historian - he joins Stephen LeDrew to discuss this for Three Minutes.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.