The Regina City Council has decided to remove the statue of Canada’s first prime minister from a park and put it in storage until a new location is found. In a 7-4 vote Wednesday, councilors voted in favour of removing the statue of Sir John A. Macdonald from the city’s Victoria Park and put it in storage, coming after calls for its removal because of the former prime minister’s role in establishing colonial systems which include Indian residential schools.  The council spent nearly four hours hearing from people for and against the removal before the vote. In recent years, monuments of Macdonald throughout the country have been subjected to attacks and vandalism, which members of parliament have condemned. John Hopkins, chairman of Reconciliation Regina, told the council that the statue is offensive to many people, both indigenous and non-indigenous.  Some people suggested placing the statue in a museum, moving it behind the provincial …