Commentary A lot of the racist policies and sentiment in the West in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including racism against aboriginals in Canada, had its roots in social Darwinism, an offshoot of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Unfortunately this doctrine is now being revived, this time in the name of critical race theory (CRT). In his famous 1859 book “On the Origin of Species,” Darwin argues that animals, birds, and plants adapt to their environments. With this observation, he suggests that the success of a species is specifically dependent on its ability to adapt to changing environments. Organisms that adapted survived to parent the next generation, while organisms that failed to adapt had few, if any, offspring. Darwin called this process “natural selection.” Soon after the publication of Darwin’s book, Herbert Spencer, an English biologist, expanded the concept of natural selection and coined the phrase “the survival …