Boards encase a statue of Canada’s first prime minister on the lawn of Queen’s Park in Toronto.Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in front of Ontario’s legislature is expected to return to public view this summer after being vandalized five years ago. That’s a good move, but it does not go far enough.

Without Macdonald, it’s no stretch to say that the country we know would not exist. Canada’s first prime minister was also the leading figure of Confederation. However, his legacy is stained by the establishment of a national residential school system aimed at stamping out Indigenous culture, causing generations of trauma.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called for memorials to the schools in each provincial capital. So far, the best Ontario’s legislature has done is a

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