EDITORIAL: 'Serious’ nations don’t rewrite their history

Smug Canadians like to look south and berate U.S. President Donald Trump for his threats to annex us as the 51st state and for his oft-expressed view that Canada is “not a real country.”

Instead of blaming Washington for our woes, perhaps we should look at those who persist in tearing down Canada from within, with sloppy research and half-baked misinterpretations of history. Some of those people are in government.

As Blacklock’s Reporter revealed recently, a federal Parks Canada board has deemed Canada’s first and third prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, “too polarizing and too controversial” to celebrate any further with historical plaques. -- More...