Some see it as a racist relic which must go while others see it as a part of our history, a time when Portuguese fishermen were welcomed with open arms.

The Gaspar Corte-Real statue in front of Confederation Building, donated to Newfoundland and Labrador by Portugal as a thank you for our hospitality to their fishermen, will be part of a re-evaluation by the provincial government.

Premier Dwight says it’s not who we are today.

Aboriginal groups in Labrador believe that Corte-Real may have enslaved dozens of Indigenous people.

Premier Ball says he is not under direct pressure to remove the statue, but he is about to launch a review of that and other questionable historical structures.

He says we must be open for change but we also have to do the research and look at a lot of those monuments.