While allowing that the first prime minister’s “policy toward the Chinese cannot be defended” and that “his exclusion from the vote of those living here was an act of explicit discrimination,” Richard Gwyn, the author of a two-volume biography of John A. Macdonald, attempts to counter Timothy Stanley’s position that Macdonald was a “white supremacist.”
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Was John A. Macdonald a white supremacist?
History professor Timothy Stanley says our first prime minister was a white supremacist.