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‘[the chief archivist] has asked for us to remove all ‘offensive’ content from the website,’ read internal staff emails from Library and Archives Canada.
(LifeSiteNews) — Internal emails show Canada’s head archivist ordered the removal of thousands of national archives she deemed “offensive.”
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Access to Information records show that Leslie Weir, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief archivist at Library and Archives Canada, ordered staff to scrub more than 7,000 pages of historical records from their online database, citing that the content “may offend people.”
“Much of the content on the Library and Archives Canada website reflects the time at which it was written. We understand much of this outdated historical content no longer reflects today’s context and may be offensive to many,” Weir said in a 2021 staff email.
“This is an enormous undertaking with over 7,000 web pages,” added the archivist, who was appointed by Trudeau’s cabinet in 2019.
Additional emails released by Blacklock’s show managers emailing one another saying they “are going to be doing a more thorough search of offensive content” on all of their “platforms,” adding that the only instruction by Weir was the broad request to remove anything that could be deemed “offensive” content.
“Do we have a definition [of what constitutes offensive content]?” one manager asked.
“This is not the way to do this,” a colleague retorted.