Churches should share the shame

While Sir John A. Macdonald and Hector-Louis Langevin were part of a government that set up the residential school system back in 1884, they should not be blamed for the way the schools were run. Removing a statue from a public site in Victoria, B.C., and taking a name off a bridge in Calgary will not change history. History is history — it cannot be changed.

Granted, Macdonald and Langevin started the school system, but the system was managed and operated by the Catholic Church.

Maybe instead of vilifying Macdonald and others, we should start closing and demolishing all the Catholic churches in Canada.

Stan Martin, Calgary