Me? Tense?

I'm just old-fashioned enough to think that facts matter, and if something's worth asking, it's worth knowing the facts about.

GOOD-NATURED IRONY AHEAD:

But on the other hand, as so many partisans keep teaching us, "facts" reported by serious researchers are just the opinions of people who won't believe what you want them to. I should be cooler with that.

And to me, at least, "not a stretch" usually means "not cosmically impossible, so the lack of confirming evidence means nothing except that it may still really be true anyway, and you can't deny that, can you?"

END IRONY.

> I would expect a Canadian government heritage website to have some level of source accuracy.

Me too, but as an American president once said, "Trust but verify." Journalistic pronouncements on language usage and history are notoriously unreliable.