York University Professor Craig Heron: Canadian History

Postmedia News The Conservatives Dept: York University professor Craig Heron told Postmedia News the Conservatives are bleeding Canadian history dry with cuts to Libraries and Archives Canada outlined in the 2012 budget. He is among the growing number of academics denouncing the spending cuts, according to Montreal Gazette. It s absurd the money that went into celebrating a war that essentially touched southern Ontario, that was highly inconclusive, and could hardly be said to have shaped Canada, said Heron, the former president of the Canadian Historical Association. But while millions in public funds finance the reenactment , the actual institutions that preserve Canadian history are being badly slashed and oTTAWA On the tail end of a year that saw the Conservatives spend $28 million reenacting the War of 1812, some historians say the federal government is contributing to the erosion of the country s historical institutions. Representatives from the Canadian Association of University Teachers CAUT will be on Parliament Hill Thursday to unveil a campaign aimed at restoring funding to archives across the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.