The Wrath of Gypsies

09/25/2018

In 2009, well before Sir John A. Macdonald was carted off to a Victoria warehouse and the City of Kingston scheduled public consultations on how to "reinterpret" local memorials of the father of our country as a no-good rat, before Hector Langevin's name was peeled off the façade of the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa, and before bronzed Lord Cornwallis was felled in Halifax, a planned recreation of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham was cancelled because it was too painful to admit... what? That parliamentary self-government and individual rights had triumphed over obtuse and extortionate absolutism?