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The Progressive Conservative government promised last year to erect a statue of Chief Peguis to commemorate his signing of the first treaty in Western Canada in 1817 granting land along the Red River to settlers. It would be the first statue of a First Nations person on the legislature grounds.
Pallister said the plan has always been to update some of the language used on monuments so that they more accurately reflect history.
Pallister’s remarks on Canada’s history, however, were criticized.
“The people who came here to this country … didn’t come here to destroy anything. They came here to build,” he said.
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