Melanie Newton, the co-chair of the city council advisory committee looking at the renaming issue, has studied Dundas’s legacy and said that as Britain was weighing abolition, he intervened and introduced a motion for ‘gradual abolition.’

In other words, the government of the time was mixed about abolition, and instead of letting it die on the floor to those who were opposed, he proposed a gradual system to try and win more abolition support – to ensure that something happened instead of the otherwise certainty of nothing?

What a horrible monster. Get that name changed at once!