As Tristin Hopper and Jamie Sarkonak thoroughly outlined in the National Post this week, the national orgy of mistaken identity-self-flagellation over the moral and ethical, historic and current character of Canada, and particularly the singling out and dispatch to the stocks for constant public ridicule and denigration of the country’s chief founder, John A. Macdonald, has excavated a new low in official self-denunciation. A fine Victorian home in Kingston, Ont., Bellevue House, which Macdonald occupied for only two years in the 1840s has been renovated and reopened as a historic site in order to highlight what the invited lecturer Channon Oyeniran described at the reopening on May 18, as Canada, like the United States, being “steeped in racism, colonialism, white supremacy and other legacies of enslavement.” These sentiments were echoed by other speakers.