Reaction To History of Sir John A Macdonald
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- Reaction To History of Sir John A Macdonald
This is my reaction to History of Sir John A Macdonald
In this video I react to Canadian history by reacting to the first Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A Macdonald who originally came from Glasgow, Scotland.
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If you go to Kingston, where he had his law practice (and where he was buried), they’re all about him. He had a vision for what was then a handful of disparate colonies could be, a vision he shared with men like George-Etienne Cartier and George Brown, and ultimately achieved against all odds.
But he was also an alcoholic, corrupt and his racism was extreme even for the time. His justification for the Chinese Head Tax was straight-up white nationalism to the extent that it appalled his House colleagues, to say nothing about the push to have Louis Riel executed or the residential school system.
As much as we live with what Macdonald forged for good or ill, a part of me appreciates that he wasn’t that great a person. Mythologizing the Founders is a huge problem in the States and I’m grateful Canadians can be a tad more objective.
Louis Reil and Dumont were genuine
that blood traitor is rubbish
the natives got rid of his statue in kingston they got queens to rename macdonald hall to law building, us who respect him have to speak his name in hush and out of the public eye its pretty sad
@@molsonmuscle613 He’s still pretty prominent in a lot of tourist parts, like the harbour tour and Bellevue House.
The bad men do lives after them , the good is oft interred with.their bones. There is a lot of scape goating , queen victoria was torn.down and smashed as well and those who did it had no idea who she was , just a colonizer. Either there are treaties or youve been colonized , which?
@@danielalexandermclachlanga3781riel commited treason, as a member of Parliament. Dumont was from North dakota and went back . read a biography
My great grandfather was a friend of his. He was invited over from scotland and stayed with him. Later became governor general. He was an author amoung other things. Started the canadian literacy award. Iteresting man. His journals depicted Macdonald as a passionate, stubbron man.
He lived …. At the time.
Today…Grab your torch and pitchforks.
For those that do not remember the past are bound to repeat it.
People nowadays think that if they were living in those times they would somehow be different. They would be that 1% out of the 99% and that their beliefs would be somehow more enlightening and diverse and blah blah blah. They only say that because they have the gift of hindsight and being at a point in time where it has already happened and they can make that claim.
The porters lounge in Kingston General Hospital is where the the first Canadian parliament was held.
MacDonald's house was was about 3/4Km west of it.
MacDonald has recently become a controversial figure in Canada. Despite him (over)financing smallpox vaccination to Native communities in Canada (people in parliament tried to stop him from spending more money than was budgeted), people condemn him for helping start residential schools. This is odd considering the problems of abuse within those schools were not recorded to occur until well after MacDonald died. These were supposed to be boarding schools as was common in Britain (where MacDonald was born and was common for the Commonwealth).
You should look up Tommy Douglas, voted Canada's Greatest Canadian by Canadians. He gave us our Medicare system. He is still largely beloved.
Tommy also advocated sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Not so innocent himself.
Until someone digs up dirt.
@@denisegreene8441he was a socialist, and that’s a lot of dirt right there.
Tommy Douglas advocated sterilization of mentally handicapped people in his MA thesis. A real humanitarian! 😆
His daughter Shirley was married to Donald Sutherland,. Douglas died yesterday RIP.
My relative in Toronto was the colleague of one of the descendent s of Sir John A McDonald, As described by my relative: a person with integrity,nice and hard working
Might I recommend BobbyBroccoli's 2 part series on Nortel "The Company that Broke Canada"
It's a rather fascinating piece on the history of telephone and internet networks in North America, and the fraught relationship Canada has with the US as we rely on them for trade while desperately trying to avoid becoming subservient.
And of course at the center of the story, Nortel, the company that was on track to turn Ottawa into the tech capital of the world, until it all came crashing down.
There was a series by the CBC a while back called "Greatest Canadian".. it was 13 episodes. It culminated in a vote by Canadians as to who is the greatest Canadian and the winner was Tommy Douglas - Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather. You should react to these episodes. McDonald has faced controversy and isn't as revered as you think.
His grave is 40km from me and there was a bit of vandalism a few years ago but it has settled down.
MacKenzie King was in office the longest, during the Great Depression & WWII.
McKenzie King should get the same treatment as Sir John A. King sent a boatload of Jews away , and they ended up in hitler's death camps His famous comment about jews: "none are too many". Oddly enough, the page in his journal for that day was razored out....
Gin & Scoth expanded his consciousness.
Hi Mert. Love your content. I was curious as to why you are living in beautiful Malaysia? I would imagine it's quite rare to have a Scot living there no? 🤔 😊
MacDonald was a foundational Prime Minister without which Canada would have been likely been absorbed by the US.
You can go to his home in Glasgow
He's not as well liked now, like he was when I was child. His involvement in the native residential school issue has come out over the last 5 years and it's tarnished him. For good or bad, many buildings, roads, etc. that were named after him have had his named removed. His statue at Queen's Park in Toronto was vandalized and has remained closed off to the public since then.
He has a statue here in Quebec that used to get smeared in paint regularly when it wasn't outright decapitated.
Unfortunately, the people who slander him don't know 'jack' about history.
Woke movement canceling great men yet again.
A lot of that is bs.
He's still admired by those of us who understands that times and morality change. You can't judge someone from earlier centuries by today's woke standards.
All my native homies hate John A McDonald that's how we remember him 😅
Who cares.
@@terryomalley1974ur mum
@@terryomalley1974 ur mum
The feeling is mutual...and you wonder why?
If John A Macdonald was PM today, there wouldn’t be a housing crisis because there wouldn’t be any immigrants 😂
He was a stubborn, old drunk
He did a lot for the birth of the country and much of what he did was the norm for men of affluence at the time. Now however, he's tarnished.
He did nothing, the work is done by the people.
In Ottawa we used to have a road kind of like a not really the highway but a busy road and we called the Sir John A. MacDonald (SJAM) Parkway but a couple of years ago the social justice warriors somehow convinced the city to rename it some Native name because racism or something.... 🙄
Also started the residential school system for native children😢
Oh, dear. Looks like the renaming trauma has irreparably scarred your fragile white privilege.
@@DatFaceDoeno he didn’t, it was started by the liberals in the early 1850s. Get your facts straight.
Why are conservatives like this? "The *woke* LIBTARDS are upset at systemic genocide or whatever... bunch of fragile snowflakes!!!!! Also my peed my pants in fear because of a Disney cartoon where two girls held hands!!!!"
@@DatFaceDoeThe stuff that happened at residential schools was after he was dead. I am sure you also know he went above and beyond with his political power to make sure natives were vaccinated from smallpox.
King and Diefenbaker
He was not kind to our First Nations People and was very involved in the creation of Residential Schools. A dark part of Canada's past. There is blood on his hands.
Sir John A had a taste for whisky.
I believe he preferred gin.
@@robertpearson8798
What kind of a Scotsman prefers gin to whisky? No wonder he moved to Canada !🤣🤣
Apparently He liked to binge drink
What we know now is how he supported racism towards indigenous peoples. It was decided to change the 10 dollar bill and feature a black woman named Viola Desmond. I don't know much of the story but some statues of him were moved or removed, and buildings named in his honor were changed.
I'm assuming you are an American the way you spelled, "honour."
Your view that he was racist is misguided, and incorrect. You cannot judge the morals and ethics of a man from 1867 to that of a man in 2024. It was a completely different world and time. His judgment was accepted as correct in society for his period. How arrogant are we to judge everyone's standards based on how we perceive as correct in our time period. I have a feeling, in the distant future, people will also negatively judge many of our actions because it doesn't match theirs in their future period of time.
@@RodRuth 70 year old Canadian, I think you should use a new technology known as Google, and the spelling I can say was a stubby finger error. Have a great day.
@@waynebristow4720 LOL.
@@RodRuth ….and being a descendant of indigenous people, the story can be different from yours. Read some of the other comments here that support my view.
@@waynebristow4720 I have read the comments here, and most agree with my view. As I stated, you cannot judge a man, and his society from hundreds of years ago because it doesn't benefit you today in 2024. It was accepted by society then. In their view, they were trying to help indegenous people, "in the proper accepted way of their time period," to benefit them in the new world.
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He did some remarkable things for Canada; unified us, built that railway, protected our interests from Amer. business. He was a man of his times, for good, & ill. Modern history has not been kind to him, but we forget that we aren't living in the mid 1800's.
He did fck-all,
He deunified Canada by antagonizing Quebec and disrespecting the deal at day one.
Workers built the railway, not John.
He was trash even for his time as kings in the medieval period had more respect for their people than John had for Quebec and the Metis.
He didn't "deunifiy" Canada in any way.
His vision was a home for British Protestant Christians in the Americas.
You're just a parasite.
People these days look at history through modern glasses. With modern morality.
Yes from today's view there are issues. But there is a lot of good.
One of our two spanning bridges in Halifax/Dartmouth is named after John A. MacDonald... time to dump the name. The only thing I remember my high school teacher telling me about him was that he was a drunk.
Which one? The A. Murray MacKay or the Angus L. Macdonald? Neither sounds quite like Sir John A. MacDonald.
You are about as dumb as they come buddy...that bridge is the Angus L MacDonald Bridge....
Wow controversial topic. The woke brigade doesn't like him. Regardless I think you cannot cancel our first PM.
As a kid learning about him thought he was an AHole as an adult glad he is no longer on the $10 bill.
Your view is misguided, ignorant, and incorrect. You cannot judge the morals and ethics of a man from 1867 to that of a man in 2024. It was a completely different world and time. His judgment was accepted as correct in society for his period. It is arrogant, and ignorant to judge everyone's standards based on how we perceive as correct in our time period. I have a feeling, in the distant future, people will also negatively judge many of our society's actions because it doesn't match theirs in their future period of time.
@@RodRuth picture this, Germany 1939.
@ItsmeEdwin not a good example. that was also not well seen in that time. He talked of looking at what was viewed as correct and standard back in the time.
One of the Greatest Canadians, only to be snuffed out and Cancelled by today's latest generation.
Im 65...still makes him a shithead
@@judyyurchuk4904 then you were taught wrong, or absorbed the material the wrong way
@@judyyurchuk4904 I'm 61...and you are a shithead...what have you accomplished? Right...nothing.
Many in today's moment in history believe only saints should lead. Either that or they are anarchist in the guise of simpletons.
Sir John A. Macdonald was, and should remain, a great Canadian who possessed a vision lacking in most others of the time. We are the country we are because of his courage and leadership.
His belief, along with thousand of other Christians of the time, believed that it was their 'Christian duty' to elevate and educate the indigenous, thus the residential school were created, using the two hundred year old system implemented in the USA. Wrong as it was, it was how misguided Christian were, and in some cases remain.
All of that should never overshadow the greatness of the man and his great accomplishments. Attempting to rewrite history dooms the future. Knowing the past, the god and the bad, allows us to no where we are going and where we should make corrections as we go. To do otherwise is disingenuous and dangerous. Chimo
A great Canadian, but the woke generation has all but cancelled him.
He no longer appears on new $10 notes, his statue has been removed from downtown Victoria, a prominent Ottawa river parkway in Ottawa that used to bear his name has been renamed with an aboriginal name no one can spell or pronounce.
To be fair, he was an architect of Canada’s indigenous residential school system - not a good thing but it was the nineteenth century.
So, a needlessly polarizing figure in Canada, but a great Canadian, IMO.
Did a lot....still a shithead...🙂🇨🇦💕
Eff you! He was a great man and PM!
Dig deeper his reputation is tarnished he took part in starting residential schools here in Canada!
Slur John A. Macdonald was so important, that he was replaced by, Viola Desmond on the ten dollar banknote.
he is being blamed for the native school system and therefore all the graves that have recently been found. There is however no evidence that the native school system was ever created by him solely. He did authorize the schools on a recommendation by the "Davin Report" the system itself was created by all Christian churches and the Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society. However, the schools disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples. however, as was very common of the day. natives were not looked upon as true citizen neither here or in the US. he was quoted as saying things that were oppressive and may have led to natives being a forgotten people with few rights. this was the rule of how you dealt with once violent tribes as they had no understanding of the ways of civilized "white men" so must be forced. The European view point was the dominant view point in regards to natives and African slaves in the west. It took decades and a war to bring the injustices to light, and decades more to pass laws, but again the controversies we see today is judging the past through modern eyes. We too shall be judged through the eyes of those in the future, and no one will escape the criticisms unscathed. we are humans, guilty to a fault and always will be. The best we can hope for is our constant desire to make life better for everyone by learning from our mistakes and sometimes crimes. we can not bury history, good or bad and hope that will fix all past wounds. the past is past. what we learn from it should help us do better, ignoring it and erasing it is dangerous unless you want it repeated one day.
The greatest colonizer, I learned of John a in elementary school but didn’t know his leading and legally introducing egenosidal practices at that time. Today every Canadian feels the repercussions of barriers laid by John A. ..🇨🇦
You were taught to hate John A. Macdonald by people who hate John A. Macdonald.
Yet here you are, calling yourself a Canadian.
If it weren't for the old Chieftain and Queen Victoria, we Canadians would be speaking merican today.
If it wasn't for Prime Minister John A. Macdonald Canada wouldn't be what it is today. There probably would be a Canada but it would probably consist of Ontario, Quebec and the eastern Provinces. The man wasn't an angel. He was as human as any of us and to pretend otherwise is to live in cloud coo coo land. He was a man both warts and all and stop pretending like he was any different from any other person of his time.
That’s gaslighting. MacDonald is the one who passed the Indian Act that forced Native people into residential schools and prevented them from holding their cultural ceremonies. Because of the abuse Native children suffered in the residential schools not only by punished for speaking their language but also abuse because when children are at the mercy of people in power over them, those in power take advantage of their power to mistreat their victims.
Canada’s dark history. John A. Macdonald authorizes the creation of the residential school system,
Yes, because these were boarding schools that were similar to the British model that he grew up with and in which non-native populations were placed in Canada.
He stole Québec's freedom.
Ya right.
French PMs have been destroying British Canada since Laurier.
There is a dark side to him as well, but due to Bringing England to the World type of mentality, which is a condition of his environment.
Nothing said about his involvement in the Residential schools, the reservations and his ten dollar bounty for Indigenous scalps. I often hear that this isn't the time to speak on Indigenous issues. If not now, then when? The health care system illegally sterile Indigenous people and the government does not hold them accountable. The genocide of Indigenous people is still going on, my people, fellow Canadians. Although legally speaking i am not a Canadian citizen, I'm merely allowed to live on the lands of my ancestors. But I can get a Canadian passport, Canadian drivers license and Canadian picture identity cards on top of my status card.
Ah, the "white"washed version. Sure, he is great from one perspective, but "Canada" wasn't devoid of people. Mert, as a fellow Scot, rewatch this video as if he was *boak* English. Mebeh not that bad, but from my Mi'kmaq husband's perspective, yeah.
Everything in your life that makes your life easy...is the result of colonialism....nothing in your life that is good came from Tribalism...one day you will come to your senses and realize that.
My family stories tell that John A drunk was better than most sobor.
propaganda shite
Nah John A McDonald ain't it pal don't call him important again 😅
But John A was and remains important. History is what it is. Cannot be changed.
@@JuneAdams-li9syohhh shut up you get off John A McDonalds balls and get ur own opinions 😅
@@JuneAdams-li9sy ohh shut up 😂 that's like saying Hitler has a place in Germany history 😅
@@JohnfromManitoba More like George Washington has a place in US history ......
I think a figure can be historically important and really awful both at the same time.