20 February 2011 - 07:37

Get this story right. This is not just about Canadians of Ukrainian heritage protesting against the biased contents of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. My understanding is that Polish, Chinese, Italian, French, Armenian, other Central & East European, and even a few Jewish Canadians are also troubled by the manner in which this national museum is being governed and by its proposed contents, which elevate the suffering of a few communities over all others, downplaying major Canadian stories while ignoring other issues (e.g. the Crimes of Communism) entirely. In fact a majority of Canadians do not support a taxpayer funded national museum that will promote partiality. That is why Ukrainian Canadians, and others, have called upon the federal government to reconstitute the board of trustees of the CMHR to make that body more representative of our society, to reject calls for increases in funding from the public purse and to immediately strike an independent committee to review the museum's proposed contents. All 12 of its 12 galleries need to be thematic, comparative and inclusive. Anything else is unacceptable.

Sent by Lubomyr Luciuk, Kingston, Canada