Quebec's National History and the History Curriculum Debate: When Activist Ideology Tries to Impersonate Science
This article is part of the controversy that took place, starting in 2006, about the Quebec history program in high school and in the wake of the publication, in the spring of 2020, of the collective work L’Histoire nationale du Québec. Entre bon-ententisme et nationalisme. It focuses on certain chapters related to this debate and intends to deconstruct some of their assertions to show the unsound character from the perspective of both facts and methodology and epistemic and argumentative rigour. In conclusion, it offers an explanation for the reaction of opponents to the 2006 program.