"Historian of Quebec's Royal 22nd Regiment wants them to know their past"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jP9q0q7x59CJybEoXO3pViIg6eCQ

Quebecers, who generally don't get bowled over by the prospect of military history, are known as pacifists who are more stringent opponents of military conflict than Canadians in other parts of the country.

Yet the storied, Quebec-based Royal 22nd Regiment, the famed Van Doos, has never had much trouble over the years recruiting soldiers to fight for Canada in battles in France, Italy, Korea and other international hot spots, Lacombe acknowledges.

The Royal 22nd easily recruited 5,000 volunteers shortly after the regiment was founded in 1914, even though French-Canadians were generally opposed to conscription during the First World War, said Lacombe, the unofficial "biographer" of the regiment, recently arrived in Afghanistan.

Liars? You figure?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Textbook+case+distorted+history/1676188/story.html

The landings at Normandy on that same date in 1944 had enormous worldwide consequences. However, the Quebec's Secondary IV history textbook omits the event completely, but does refer to the conscription crisis and the rise of the Bloc Populaire during that war. That's putting important issues into context isn't it?