He's been dead for 30 years. Can't wait for the name to be cancelled when it comes out that he provided much of the money to start the Reform Party and also funded an anti-bilingualism initiative (Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada).
Bilingualism denial has got to attract the ire of the influential Karennial demographic. Will the Liberals threaten to hold back healthcare funding until the facility is named after a gender non-specific bird?
Even though I was never a fan of the Reform party it shouldn’t matter that he was a contributor. It’s a non-factor.
The alliance for preservation of English was more of an initiative against bilingualism, than for the preservation of English, but like @darwink said, those were different times. One also has to remember that Quebec was fully pushing its French language laws which was more or less anti-bilingualism but against English. Some of these groups were formed as a backlash against that.
It was a different time. Just like today we laugh at the news clips of people professing their hatred for mandatory seatbelt laws. Some things seemed like a big deal and weren't.
I am surprised that they’ve already spent thousand of dollars on a “Calgary Cancer Centre” sign when it was recently announced that the building will be named after a donor, so they will have to change it and spend more money to do so?
I'd imagine they can keep the "Cancer Centre" portion and just add the rest of it to the front. These donations also materialize over time, they probably did not anticipate having to rename it and it's not like all healthcare facilities receive a donation. Would be the same if we just left the Alberta Children's Hospital without a sign until someone came along to donate money.