Foreigners who have any interest in Canada are still trying to reconcile themselves with the fact that we flew the flags of our country in all of our embassies and offices abroad, as well as throughout Canada, at half-mast for six months over the alleged secret burial in unmarked graves of Native schoolchildren, an event of which there remains not one whit of evidence that it actually occurred. This oversight did not prevent the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from self-administering a blood libel on this country by volunteering to the United Nations that our ancestors had attempted a form of genocide against our Native people. This put us notionally in the same category as such genocidal regimes as Nazi Germany, the Ottoman Turks in Armenia, Pol Pot in Kampuchea and those guilty of the massacres in Rwanda and Darfur. (When I pointed this out to an audience at a broadcasters’ convention in Banff, Alta., a couple of years ago, 17 people walked out in protest, but they were such gracious and polite Canadians that they made so little commotion I wasn’t aware of it until it was reported the following day.)