I'm talking about Carleton University, where they named a building after him. Now, the dunderheads who run the institution -- including the president, Benoit-Antoine Bacon -- in a breathtaking display of "cancel culture", have decided to remove Gordon Robertson's name from the building.
This is outrageous and led by a group of knuckle-headed students, natives and rabid devotees of the victimhood industry who can't even use google to see all the good work the Honourable Mr. Robertson did when he served as Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. He followed his boss Prime Minister Mackenzie King's instructions and travelled there to see how and where best to ensure the Inuit (Eskimos back then) got an education. This meant relocating them, which was logical at the time. Now, it's apparently an outrage and the man who served as clerk of the privy council from 1963 to 1979 is being vilified -- along with every other Canadian leader who tried to educate the natives, including Canada's founder Sir John A. Macdonald.
This has to stop. B worked for Mr. Robertson, as he always called him, in federal-provincial relations from 1977 until the latter's retirement in 1979 and was part of the elite team put together to patriate and write the 1982 Constitution Act -- no small feat because it involved working with all the provincial premiers, as well as constitutional lawyers from Britain. Now, that would have been a real pandora's box to figure out, but it is one of B's proudest achievements.
Wouldn't it be nice if students stuck to the kniting and simply got an education, instead of trying to re-write history and cancel everything that's good about this country.
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