Todd Lamirande
APTN National News
Four Indigenous members of parliament from both the Liberals and NDP held a news conference Thursday in Ottawa to ask the government to change the name of the building that houses the prime minister’s working office and the privy council of Canada.
That building, called the Langevin block, is named after Hector-Louis Langevin, one of the Fathers of Confederation and the architect of the residential school system that saw tens of thousands of Indigenous children ripped from their communities and placed in state-run schools.
On the other side, Langevin also argued against the execution of Métis leader Louis Riel.
Along with the removal of Langevin’s name we must remove the names of all prime ministers from Macdonald to Chretien from any public structure.