William Brooks defends scholars challenging Canada’s residential school genocide narrative, urging truth over conformity. Emotional claims, he warns, must face scrutiny or risk corrupting reconciliation with silence, fear, and ideological taboos.
Senior Fellow
William Brooks
Senior Fellow
William Brooks
About
William Brooks is an opinion columnist for The Epoch Times and a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Bill earned an Honours BA in History at Loyola College, University of Montreal, as well as a B.Ed and M.Ed in the Teaching of History from McGill University. He taught in Quebec public high schools before joining Lower Canada College where he spent 25 years teaching history, economics and political science. At LCC, he was Head of the Social Sciences Department and Director of the school’s Pre-university Program.
In civic life, Bill served for eight years as an elected public school commissioner on Montreal’s West Island and as an active member of the Board of Governor’s for the former Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards. In 1980 he co-founded the St. Lawrence Institute in Montreal and collaborated for several years with the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to develop Can-Am leadership programs for students in free societies. In 2000, he co-founded the Center for the Advancement of Schools (CAS), a Montreal based consulting group specialising in educational policy assessment and the development of school success plans for the Province of Quebec.
Research by William Brooks
Two Choices For Humanity: One Embraces Gratitude, The Other Resentment
William Brooks contrasts gratitude with resentment as two competing forces shaping society. Gratitude uplifts and unites; resentment divides and corrodes. In an age of grievance, thanksgiving is more than tradition; it’s resistance.
The Missing Link to Democracy in Canada’s National Remembrance Day Ceremony
Senior Fellow William Brooks argues Canada’s Remembrance Day ceremony excludes a vital part of democracy, its opposition parties. Including them wouldn’t politicize remembrance; it would honour the pluralism and accountability soldiers died to protect.
How the ‘Ignore-Vilify-Banish’ Strategy Seeks to Limit the Influence of Anti-Communism
Senior Fellow William Brooks argues media silence on Anti-Communism Week exposes a deeper strategy: ignore, vilify, then banish dissenting views. Today’s cultural gatekeepers are narrowing debate, ironically, using tactics once condemned in totalitarian regimes.
Canada’s Future May Lie In Continental Integration
Bill Brooks argues for a Can-Am union, saying only bold economic, regulatory and security integration with the U.S. can rescue Canada from decline and counter China’s influence