The city of Toronto under its woke Mayor Olivia Chow recently considered renaming Dundas Street, a major street running through the centre of the city, ostensibly because the street’s namesake Sir Henry Dundas supported slavery, but really because the woke dislike our heritage. Splitting differences as politicians do, they have settled for renaming Dundas Square and a couple of subway stations.
It has now emerged that Dundas was an abolitionist, albeit a pragmatic one, who like most practical politicians wanted bills to pass and legislation to achieve its object.1 More embarrassing, the deracinated new name of Dundas Square, “Sankofa” Square, aside from being an inauthentic import that no one had heard of a week ago, is taken from a tribe of slave traders. You could not make this up.
Mark F Proudman
@markfproudman