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Once we've made the precedent to remove symbols of the past using today's moral compass, there is a lot to choose from. How about the statue of Emily Murphy on the Hill? She is a fine example of a woman who accomplished some truly great things for her time, but held very racist views as well. She published her views in a book called The Black Candle. In terms of her racism she was nothing more than a product of her time.

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She believed that the mentally and socially inferior reproduced more than the "human thoroughbreds" and appealed to the Alberta Legislative Assembly for forced sterilization. In a petition, she wrote that mentally defective children were "a menace to society and an enormous cost to the state ... science is proving that mental defectiveness is a transmittable hereditary condition". She wrote to Minister of Agriculture and Health, George Hoadley that two female "feeble-minded" mental patients had already bred several offspring. She called it "a neglect amounting to a crime to permit these two women to go on bearing children".

Due in part to her heavy advocacy of compulsory sterilization, thousands of Albertan men and women were sterilized without their knowledge or consent under the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta before its repeal in 1972.

Doesn't get much worse than that?