News Analysis Regina city council’s vote to remove Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue from a prominent city park is the latest in a trend of removing monuments honouring Canada’s founder as well as his name from buildings that leaves some historians and others concerned. Brian Giesbrecht, a retired judge and a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, said he finds the push to remove statues “kind of dismaying.” “Our history, it really defines us, and if we start erasing it, what does that mean, and what effect does it have on us?” he said in an interview. “And what do we teach our children in school? Are we going to actually tell our children that John A. was a bad man, and we have to now take his statue down because he was a bad man? Isn’t that telling them that their country is no good?” Giesbrecht …