Canadian Politics Today

And it seems that at least some of the right would prefer to sweep such shortcomings under the rug, never to be acknowledged.

I freely acknowledge the warts of Sir John and just about everyone else in his generation and the generations before. Where we differ is I also freely acknowledge that, if you compare them to the people and leaders of other nations of that time they still come out way ahead.

I mean, people forget the US navy and its weird amalgamation of the Marines (a navy with its own army) was born because of the way Muslim rulers along North Africa sent their ships to intercept and sack American trading vessels and take their people as slaves. The US navy was built to attack North African seaports, free American slaves,  and force the Moors to leave American ships alone.

They forget about the slaughter of the Indian-Muslim wars or the brutality of the empires in China and Japan. And they certainly don't even think about what 'enlightened' rulers were doing in South America or Africa. No, they dwell long and lovingly on the shocking immorality of our ancestors, much like that brainless suckhole Trudeau did at the United Nations in listing our various historical sins to people who, for the most part, have never given any thought whatever to the similar historical deficiencies of THEIR ancestors.