“When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men." Sir John A Macdonald 1879

Langevin established residential schools in 1883, when he seemingly spoke his PM's 
 words "while Indigenous children left with their families could learn how to “read and write”, they must be separated from them if they are to “acquire the habits and tastes … of civilized people” 

There are over 100 schools with John A's name, countless statues, bridges, highways and he's on the money....thank goodness for scapegoats