Perhaps the Most Egregious Example of "Illegitimate Historical Revisionism" Is the Complete Rewriting of the History of Russia by the Communist Party; this Illegitimate Revision of History Is Also Happening in Canada

The falsification of the historical record for the purpose of creating a past that fits with the ideological goals of the present has been a common characteristic of revolutionary regimes seeking to legitimize themselves by portraying their actions and goals as if they were conterminous with the aims of history or the venerable beliefs of the past. Perhaps the most egregious example of "illegitimate historical revisionism", as contrasted to the legitimate re-assessment of the past on the basis of improved evaluation of records, is the complete re-writing of the history of Russia by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, particularly during the reign of Stalin in the mid-1920s to early 1950s; history was not only written according to the "correct" Marxist theory, but state officials commonly went about erasing major historical figures from documents, books, and even photographs the moment they were deemed to be "enemies of the people".

This illegitimate revision of the historical record is also happening in Canada, but in a difficult to detect way, for it does not involve any book burning, outright denials of certain events, or use of forged documents. It is taking place in a rather calmed, seemingly reasonable way, ostensibly in accordance with the protocols of "verifiability", "peer review", and "openness to criticism". Let me be clear: I am not referring here to intentionally polemical books about the "suppressed" history of Canadian women, the "inhumane" treatment of natives, and the like. The books I have in mind are general surveys intended to be summations of the existing state of knowledge, not polemical exegeses, that is, surveys for undergraduate courses read by thousands of impressionable students across the nation. These surveys are now dominated by the dictates of the multicultural agenda, however neutral they may appear at first sight.

Basically what has happened, and is happening, is that historians have been expected to view the older Anglo-Saxon narrative of Canada, or the "two founding races" narrative, as "monolithic mythologies", as "models" that were "violently imposed" on history against "the other", against the actual "complexity" of Canada as a nation created by multiple ethnic groups, to cite the words of John Ralston Saul, the putative philosopher of Canada. "Monolithic", in the establishment world Saul inhabits, means a view that "denies complexity" and holds the "illusion of racial unity or cultural unity". "Mythology" means that it is not truly reflective of the actual historical realities. Saul expresses these thoughts in his superficially contrived Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century published in 1998. Academics love to use these words when they describe their ways of thinking. Portraying Canada as "richly diverse", a "complex cultural mosaic" from its origins, means that one can grasp complexities, one is "subtle" and "nuanced". By contrast, writing that Canada was fundamentally a British nation bespeaks of crudeness and simple mindedness.

What about the facts? Well, historians have further learned from the more ideologically oriented social scientists that the "old style of history", which took for "granted" Canada's Anglo identity, was a discourse "socially constructed" by dominant Anglo men. The claim that Canada was founded by the British and French was "constructed by white males" to justify their subjugation of minorities. Historians know better now. They are more "sensitive" to the long suppressed diverse voices of Canada's past, and, in this vein, they have constructed a "new discourse" that better captures the "complexity" of Canada as a "multicultural nation" from its beginnings.

--Ricardo Duchesne, Canada in Decay: Mass Immigration, Diversity, and the Ethnocide of Euro-Canadians (London, UK: Black House Publishing, 2018), Kobo e-book.