Sir John A Macdonald was important to the history of Canada. Guess what? so were all the individuals featured in Confederate statues to U.S. History, and in particular, the American South. This attempt to defend John A. but not the latter is pathetic. With history you take the good and the bad. No one from that past era is completely innocent. If you want to say down with Confederate monuments, then I say down with John A. Macdonald.