I have no doubt that Peter has been to Kingston many times.  So have I.  

And he is right that there is no ELABORATE memorial to honour this great man who was so enlightened and generous by the standards of his time and without whom this country would not exist.

Naming schools, streets and halls after someone hardly qualifies as constituting elaborate memorials and the modest statue and his home as a historical site are all well and good but only a partisan with a bone to pick who has never seen the US presidential libraries and the other monuments that countries build to honour their greatest leaders would attempt to call the MacDonald tributes in Kingston elaborate.

This year, the cynical and hyper-partisan Liberal government of which you are such a fierce supporter "honoured" Sir John by cutting his appearance on the $10 bill by 75%, removing him entirely from the $10 bill starting in 2018, and perhaps putting him on the $100 or the $50 which Canadians seldom see or use.