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Art Milnes, organizer of Monday’s planned celebration of the birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald in Kingston, woke up to find his car’s tires slashed, red paint poured over it, and a burned Canadian flag underneath it.

MP Mark Gerretsen’s cars were also vandalized, Milnes said.

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But unless he hears otherwise, the ceremony at noon in Kingston’s City Park at the statue of Canada’s first prime minister will go ahead as planned, Milnes said this morning.

They are threatening to disrupt it. They want it cancelled. (But) the show will go on.

“Kingston is not going to stop commemorating Sir John A. Macdonald.”

Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty is still coming and everything will go ahead “unless police advise otherwise,” Milnes said.

Milnes didn’t know who was responsible for the vandalism but the Idle No More movement has protested the ceremony in the past and has planned a protest to coincide with today’s event.

In 2013, red paint was thrown onto the Sir John A. Macdonald statue and the words “Murderer” and “This is Stolen Land” scrawled on its base.