Sir John A. Macdonald Day: Canada

Macdonald Dept: Macdonald built our great country and today s act of vandalism is a disgrace, Moore stated in a Twitter message ahead of Friday s ceremony. We will continue to honour Canada s first prime minister proudly and celebrate his achievements for all of Canada, according to Montreal Gazette. The vandalism was discovered just hours ahead of an annual gathering at the statue to celebrate Macdonald s Jan. 11 birth date, formally known as Sir John A. Macdonald Day and plans for a major federal announcement about the upcoming 200th anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald s birth in 2015 were marred Friday after the Kingston, Ont., statue of Canada s first prime minister intended as the backdrop for a ceremony featuring Heritage Minister James Moore was defaced with red paint and the words This is Stolen Land, Murderer and Colonizer. The scrawling of the stolen land message on the Kingston statue coincides with the ongoing Idle No More aboriginal protest movement and meetings in Ottawa Friday between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nations leaders. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.