commanderkai commanderkai:
Except that the memorial is this "Memorial to the Victims of Totalitarian Communism", so unless Tommy Douglas was a Totalitarian Communist, you're overreacting. I mean, I'd be outraged if I saw a statue of Douglas next to Mao, and Stalin (among many others)and the fact that the name might offend a few communists within Canada is basically stupid. Once again, if we change the name because we might offend a few communists, we might as well start tearing down or renaming all WWII, and Holocaust museums to avoid offending Neo-Nazis.
Well the thing looks a lot more legit to me now. I've researched the organization pushing this initative-- "Tribute to Liberty." These folks are not political operatives but people whose families were directly affected by communism. I withdraw m,y objections. Maybe I shouldn't be so cynical.