Article content Macdonald legacy needs correcting We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Your letters for May 4, 2021: Better enforcement of rallies needed Back to video Macdonald very purposefully used genocide as a means to dispossess Indigenous peoples of their land so he could make the Canadian nation. In 1878, Macdonald implemented a policy of starvation against Indigenous peoples living in the area that was to become Saskatchewan. His goal was to force Indigenous peoples on to reserves and thus clear the plains for white settlement. In Macdonald’s words: “We are doing all we can by refusing food until the Indians are on the verge of starvation.”