In her 2009 book, The Abuses and Uses of History, noted Canadian author and historian Margaret MacMillan talks about the perversion of history for political expedience. Her examples of history hijacked are typically more stark and insidious than CBC's erroneous representation of the seminal events that molded present day Canada. But it would have been a useful primer for story editors to guard against the very ethno and geo centricities that have thus far tilted this Story of Some of Us.