Harper Collins has a tenth anniversary edition out, substantially updated (I hear), of Jack Granatstein's Who Killed Canadian History?
Granatstein was hugely successful in provoking controversy when the book first came out -- and I'm always in favour of lively debate about history, so I was okay with the book even when I disagreed with it.
It is, however, a book that brings out the mouth-breathers and doom-predictors, and it seems to license them to say anything. HarperCollins's webpage for the new edition declares that "Canada is one of the few nations in the western world that does not teach its history to its young people." This has been said so often people seem to take it seriously.
Point one: Substitute the name of any western nation for "Canada" and you will be able to find an identical claim from someone in that country.
Point two: I have had two children in Toronto public schools. Canadians history is all they do. Endlessly. Repetitively. I have lost count of how many times my kids have done Canada in the First World War.
