A Charlottetown café owner says when she agreed to participate in a fundraising campaign run by the Confederation Centre of the Arts, she didn’t expect to be asked to distribute “problematic” imagery.

Laura Noel, who owns a café in downtown Charlottetown, said she was contacted by the centre and asked to participate in the campaign by using branded coffee sleeves. However, upon opening the box, she was surprised to find Sir John A. Macdonald’s face printed on the front of the coffee sleeves.

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“It was not what I expected,” she said.

Noel received 1,250 sleeves and immediately felt uncomfortable using them, especially given the City of Charlottetown’s previous decision to remove a statue of Macdonald due to repeated vandalism and public concern about his legacy.

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