Woke Insanity

This just shows you how incompetent the Federal Library and Archives is.  How can you remove historical documents if you are an archive??!!!  I don't know why I received this notification, but it highlights just how "woke" and insane Canada has become.  

This was sent to me by the 'Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy', located here in Alberta.  The chief archivist who is dismantling the historic record of Canada is Leslie Weir:

Needs to be fired.

Dear Nancy,

I am writing to you about one of our key priorities at the Aristotle Foundation: educating our fellow Canadians about why knowing history and learning from it is important.

This past week, two items crossed my desk that illustrate why it’s so critical to know history and learn from it. 

The first was a Blacklock’s story about how 7,000 pages were removed from the federal government’s Library and Archives Canada website. That included historical information about the RCMP, initially based on the complaint of one 'Toronto Star' reporter, Jacques Gallant.

The reason? The Chief Archivist told her staff “outdated historical content no longer reflects today’s context and may be offensive to many.”

What??!!  You're an archive!  You can't scrub history!

I tweeted about this on X (formerly Twitter) and noted the following: “This of course misses the point: Historical writings exist, including views in a previous era. To scrub that is to send history down an Orwellian memory hole in favour of a presumed omniscient interpretation of millennia of human history today.”

It turns out plenty of Canadians share our concern at the Aristotle Foundation—and yours—that nuance and context matter to history. Plus, it’s hard for people to learn from history when it’s “cleansed” because it might be “offensive.” As of this writing, 116,000 people viewed my X tweet.

This is positive. It shows Canadians care about our history. It reveals how many also think that erasing history because previous generations of Canadians were imperfect is immodest in the extreme: All of us are imperfect as well.

If you’d like to see the danger of being perfectionist about the past, watch our “George Orwell comes to Canada” video which has already been viewed by 18,000 people.

Aristotle Foundation