",,,In the typically narrow view of the Canadian settler – Dewart was born in Ireland – this was a country virtually without a past, never mind its millennia of Indigenous habitation..."
The "deprivation" of the identity of the Québécois Nation Anglo na-na-da 
is an "expert" in the field. Is it not what the Anglo Canada has done with the "deprivation" of First Nations Cultures? 
"Cultural Genocide", said one of them, oui ?