My goodness, you would think Sir John A was the writer's grandfather!  The teachers are not asking to expunge Sir John A's name from Canadian history. They, and many others, want an acknowledgement that the residential school system was part of a genocidal program.  To that end, the people who designed it should not be honoured. If the editorial writer understood what happened on the Canadian plains, if (s)he had read some of the very painful history (s)he is so proud of, the idea of removing this name would not sound horrific at all.  The Globe's hysteria is silly. If Sir John A was as wise as the Globe suggests, today he might be leading the movement for change.