Archives Canada Deletes ‘Offensive’ and ‘Redundant’ Historical Biographies of Former Prime Ministers

Archives Canada Deletes ‘Offensive’ and ‘Redundant’ Historical Biographies of Former Prime Ministers
A statue of former Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald is pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Historical biographies of former Canadian prime ministers have been deleted from the Library and Archives Canada website because they are “offensive” or “redundant” and don’t reflect the country’s modern-day diversity and multiculturalism.

The Prime Ministers of Canada” webpage, while still including photographs of prime ministers from John A. Macdonald in the late 1880s through to Stephen Harper in 2006, will now only yield an “error 404 – not found” search result to the biographies of the former leaders.