Our Histories Are Twisted.

I think young people should, they should definitely know how Canada came into being, which is what I am telling these kids. They should go back in history, because I haven’t read a single Canadian history that tells it the way it really was. I lived in Quebec for many years and I have a reasonable understanding of French. And the Quebecers don’t learn history, the history of Canada, properly. It’s twisted in favour of Quebec and our histories are twisted in some other way. We don’t tell the truth to our children about how Canada got to be the way it is. And we don’t tell them about the attempts of the Americans to take this country over, the repeated attempts to do that. And we ought to tell them about the wars that Canada’s fought in this country, which they don’t apparently learn, and there’s been a few of those. Or the great wars we’ve fought overseas to defend the country indirectly. And they should know that, to explain how the country got here. I mean, there isn’t a country in the world that doesn’t have a long history behind it. And ours does too. Not as long as some, but the kids ought to know that. And then they know where they came from. I’m disappointed that they don’t, the fact that we don’t teach our military and correct political history to the children. Now, I guess there isn’t a single older person in Canada who wouldn’t say exactly the same thing, but the fact is, I think it ought to be done.