For 10 years, the Liberals have cast Canada as a postnational state whose dominant culture is … multiculturalism. A collection of other people’s cultures. At the same time, they’ve alienated the population from its own history and redrawn the Canadian timeline as a sequence of human rights violations: stolen land, residential schools, head tax, lack of women’s suffrage, Komagata Maru, and so on. There is no attempt to understand why decision-makers in history made the choices they did at the time, no calls for nuance, just visceral contempt for the past.