It has become an unquestionable article of faith that Residential Schools were a violence perpetrated upon First Nations. Paul Bunner argues that it is time for a Glasnost that puts this unchallenged narrative in its proper context without perverse incentives for anachronistic testimony.

The Laurentian consensus has finally broken down and not a moment too soon. The Laurentian view of Canada held that we were a fragile, insecure country, held together only by appeasement of Quebec nationalism, equalization payments, economic protectionism, official multiculturalism and national social programs. Paul Bunner reviews a new book from two central Canadians, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, which details what Westerners always knew: There was always more to Canada than just the defeatist Laurentian view of it…