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How’s this for a headline? “Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue sculptor versus the mayor who had his creation removed?”

It could be the next best thing to seeing the recently banished father of confederation running against incumbent Lisa Helps for mayor of Victoria in October’s election.

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“I am seriously considering it,” said artist John William Dann Friday. “It keeps pulling at me.”

Stop the presses!

Photo by BEN NELMS / THE CANADIAN PRESS

Perhaps Sir John A. won’t have to be repatriated to Ontario after all, as provincial Minister Todd Smith and Premier Doug Ford offered.

Whatever happens, Dann said, “democracy has to be stood up for.”

Democracy, he said, was not on display Aug. 11 when the statue of Macdonald was removed from the front of the city hall in British Columbia’s capital city and placed into storage.

“People were not properly consulted,” he said.

Photo by Graham Hughes / THE CANADIAN PRESS

It’s not that the 67-year-old artist — who created the tribute to Canada’s first prime minister in 1982 — doesn’t think the concerns from First Nations people should be ignored.