Prof Granastein has become a curmudgeon in his old age. He'd like us to think the past is another country, but he's from that country. He was born on the eve of WWII.

Now, 77 years later, he seems smitten with the WASP Canada that existed at his birth. He's moved further and further to the Right with each passing year. 

Beware the historian who yearns for yesterday and seeks to change today by making us turn back and relive the past. These historians are not to be trusted.

I can love Canadian history while being fully aware of all its warts. My family was Scandinavian and I can assure Prof Granastein the English Canadians did not think we were their equals.

Perhaps if Granastein spent more time studying social history rather than military history, he'd know the ironic mosaic of Canadian thought. The First Nations, the French, the Irish, the Scots, the Jews, the Japanese, the Chinese, and the other non-WASPs who make up our country have a completely different take on our history.