The question of what to do about potentially offensive monuments and public art has reached Hamilton City Hall.
Mayor Fred Eisenberger introduced a motion on Wednesday, that sought to create a “defined process” for what happens when complaints arise.
He withdrew the motion a short time later after it received little support.
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The central mountain’s Donna Skelly was among the vocal opponents predicting the motion would trigger an “endless stream of demands to remove public monuments.”
The Ward 7 Councillor also described it as “political correctness gone amock.”
There has been a complaint filed about the depiction of Indigenous people in a mural on the second floor at city hall and Mayor Eisenberger predicts “this is not going to be the last time we hear of this.”
He points to an “accelerating move towards these kinds of issues.”
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