Exploring Stakeholder: "Library and Archives Canada"

Toronto Star – The effort required to find the new bio on the library’s website has advocates asking why the federal government made it difficult to locate the updated text that outlines the racist policies of Canada’s first prime minister…But unlike the previous biography, the new text can’t be easily found directly through Google. The...

Library and Archives Canada – With respect to the Canadian Confederation and Prime Minister biography pages, this content was immediately placed in an archived section of the LAC website as soon as issues were raised in October 2020. Each page was clearly marked with a disclaimer at the top indicating that it did not correspond...

Toronto Star – Library and Archives Canada’s website excludes important information from the biographies of some of Canada’s first Prime Ministers. John A MacDonald’s profile does not mention the words “Indigenous” or “residential schools” or “Chinese head tax”. As the main architect of the now infamous Indian Residential School system, the discriminatory policies of the...