Jacques Beauchemin and the Canadian Press

current history course: Jacques Beauchemin, who helped write the proposed curriculum, told The Canadian Press on Friday the current history course tries to "fabricate a type of Quebecer" that wants to be a "citizen of the world." Teaching students to value multiculturalism is just as bad as teaching them to be hard-line Quebec nationalists, said Beauchemin, who authored a report on the new curriculum while working as a civil servant during the Parti Quebecois minority rule in 2014. "The current history program, in essence, tries to educate young people about multiculturalism or pluralist citizenship, saying you live in a Canada or Quebec that is diverse," said Beauchemin, a university professor. "That true, that an objective fact, according to The Chronicle Herald. In the same way that teaching students a nationalist history would be reprehensible, I think its not the best idea to tell them to have an extreme appreciation for multiculturalism and diversity." Beauchemin defends the new program and says teaching students about being a good citizen doesn't belong in a history course and can be taught separately. Critics in the anglophone community say the proposed course, which is being tested in about 30 high schools across the province, diminishes the role of immigrant communities and presents the Quebecois people as a unified group of Europeans in perpetual conflict with the rest of English Canada. That why citizenship was removed from the equation in the version being tested. Some teachers and professors familiar with the course say its rigid, nationalist narrative doesn't leave room for individual stories of the province diverse communities. The Canadian Press obtained an 83-page draft copy of the proposed new curriculum, called "History of Quebec and Canada." The two-year course, beginning in the ninth grade, presents Quebec and Canadian history in a series of chronological facts and events focusing on the struggles and conflicts of the Quebecois nation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.