Yeah. I've seen it, Vincent.

For too long, we Canadians have celebrated our Georgian and Victorian ancestors as essentially "good" people who did mostly "good" things so we could live our lovely lives in the here and now. Lord Cornwallis founded Halifax on the best harbour on the Atlantic coast; too bad for the Mi'qmaq people, but they weren't using it to its fullest advantage. Sir John A.'s tippling habit was funny and his fear and loathing of Indigenous people was normal for his time. Egerton Ryerson brought education to the masses; who cares that he built a school system with baked-in racism and class biases?

Rather less smugness would be nice in all quarters.