Commentary It seems cancel culture has reached Canada. Literally. Across the nation politicians are cancelling Canada Day because we are a genocidal disgrace. To which I am obliged to say: “Be careful what you wish for.” Canada is not perfect. How could it be when it is full of human beings? I don’t think anyone doesn’t wish parts of our history were different, definitely including aboriginal policy. But many underestimate the difficulty of doing better, blithely assuming the past of which they are largely ignorant would be a shining tale of unalloyed virtue had they only been there to advise idiotic monsters like Churchill, Macdonald, Shakespeare, King Alfred, and so on. A potentially more challenging concept is that a person could do bad things in some areas, and hold bad beliefs legitimately subject to historical reproach, without being a bad person. But if it is untrue, who will forgive us …