Jack Granatstein can't be much of a historian.  I think he is more likely a house painter.  This is just colonial white washing that ignores a whole body of evidence in the public archives.

Jack, perhaps you should read Glen Sean Coulthard, James Daschuk, the diaries of Alexander Morris, Michael Asch, Ian Mosby, and on and on.  It would also be wise to read the entire TRC report.

I'm just shaking my head at the dogged efforts of the Globe and Mail to white was history using a bunch of old white men out to preserve the status quo.

Just google this guy and you will find out he has not done anything original in his career.  Nothing perceptive.  Just regurgitations of other white men's skewed views.