This article originally appeared in the National Post. By Warren Mirko, March 25, 2026Canada is rapidly abandoning a principle that has shaped western democracies since the Enlightenment: the idea that no person or group has privileged access to sacred or divine knowledge unavailable to everyone else. Now, this principle is being threatened by Canada’s increasing embrace of “Indigenous Knowledge”— whereby knowledge is treated as collectively owned and restricted by ancestry rather than something open to examination and shared across society. Remarkably, the defining quality to possess this knowledge is not study, training, time spent on the land, or lived experience by any individual alive today. When knowledge is said to be possessed by birth rather than learned, its universality is replaced with mysticism and its value diminished.

Source: National Post March 25, 2026 19:06 UTC