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Our Community

I have worked in many indigenous communities across Canada. I have learned about and witnessed the effects of inter generational trauma. I can tell you first hand that the statue is a trauma trigger for some in our community. Commemorating this man does harm. It does not belong on our Main Street.

Genocide and Nation-destroyer

When Holding Court was erected on Picton Main Street in July 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRCC) had already started publishing its findings and recommendations, including John A. Macdonald's political ambitions and racist attitudes lead him to initiate and prosecute a campaign of cultural genocide against Indigenous Peoples. The TRCC's findings with regard to Macdonald's priimary responsibility for the creation of Indian Residential Schools in Canada were perhaps the first glimpse that many Canadians had of Macdonald's dark legacy as their first Prime Minister and Superintendent-General of Indian Affiars. The TRCC's findings in 2015 re: Macdonald's cultural…

FRATERNITY AND GOVERNMENT

I‘ll add my opinion here, though I am loathe to engage with my former community due to a severe oppression campaign that I experienced from members of that community, which subsequently alienated me away from that area in poor health and extreme poverty. My attempts to blow the whistle on sexual abuse in foster care were met with serious opposition from a network of people in PEC. I eventually found a document called “Blessed Be The Tie That Binds“ that revealed a shadow government to me and how it was affecting the community. I eventually went on to discover a…

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