Halifax urged to tread carefully on ‘complex’ re-think of Cornwallis

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Halifax urged to tread carefully on ‘complex’ re-think of Cornwallis – CBC

by ahnationtalk on October 3, 2017246 Views

Halifax council to embark on selecting panellists for how the city honours its founder

Oct 03, 2017

Halifax council will embark on the delicate task of choosing the people who will rethink how the city honours its founder, a difficult process that will attempt to disentangle Edward Cornwallis’s actions from his historical context.

Amid mounting calls to topple the city’s Cornwallis statue and strike his name from municipal land, a municipal staff report warns that the expert panel could lose credibility if its members appear to have too strong a bias or insufficient credibility.

“There is a risk that some community members will question the validity of the panel,” the staff report issued ahead of Tuesday’s regional council meeting said.