Removing History One Page At A Time

The Harper government is denying claims that it stripped a section on Vietnam from a federal website to boost its case for deporting Iraq war resisters.

Text on how both draft dodgers and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the Citizenship and Immigration site earlier this year.

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Department officials told The Canadian Press on Friday that the document in question, called “Forging our Legacy,” was indeed removed.

The reason? An “accessibility audit” found “it did not comply with (federal) common look and feel requirements” that help viewers use websites, said spokeswoman Karen Shadd in an emailed response.

She did not immediately clarify how the document failed these standards.

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h/t we move to canada who also have a link to this pdf document showing what the non compliant look and feel page looked like.

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4 Responses to “Removing History One Page At A Time”

  1. L-girl on July 4th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Thanks for posting this. Great that you picked up the pdf too.

    In the next day or so, I’m going to run a Q&A with the guy who dug out this story.

  2. Greg H. on July 4th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

    Great work on hosting that document!

  3. balbulican on July 5th, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Dozens of NRCAN and Environment Canada websites have shut down because they provided evidence of climate change and contravened the philosophy of the current government because of “design” issues. A number of federal program evaluations, normally available online in PDF, were removed from Canada Heritage sites because they provided information on the positive results achieved by programs being cancelled or cut for adminstrative reasons.

  4. sooey on July 5th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Even if they aren’t outright lying about why the material has been expunged they’re admitting that a relatively new administrative add-on procedure called “Common Look and Feel” trumps content and the historical record under this government.

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