Indigenous community members and non-Indigenous supporters have been holding a sacred fire and land-based ceremony at City Park which began on Thursday, June 10th, at 6:00 pm and will continue until our objective is met. We demand the John A. Macdonald statue be removed and replaced with a monument that honours residential school survivors and all the children who never made it home.

I support this ceremonial action and urge Kingston City Council to move quickly to remove the statue and approve funding for a new monument that better reflects and honours the truth of the colonial violence Indigenous peoples have suffered and continue to suffer.