Gerry Bowler: Government’s Attempt to Erase Canada’s Past Follows the Path of French Revolution, Communist Regimes

The new Canadian passport is unveiled at an event at the Ottawa International Airport on May 10, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Commentary

Revolutionaries often don’t know when to stop. In France of the 1790s, radicals, not content with creating a constitutional monarchy, abolishing feudalism, and establishing a bill of rights, attempted to create a whole new kind of human—utterly rational, uprooted from old loyalties and places, fitted to be a citizen of a new kind of nation.