Visitors to the Wikipedia site for Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, may notice some changes to the content over the past two weeks, with a section on gay rights revised to include support of the controversial Citizenship Guide and a section on Lost Canadians removed altogether. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kenney )Wikipedia is a self-described "free encyclopedia" that allows contributors to edit content without the permission of the original poster. According to Don Chapman, leader of the Lost Canadians, someone has been editing Kenney's profile to remove politically embarrassing content about Lost Canadians and revising other postings to fit in line with the Conservative Minister's views on sexual orientation.
"We couldn't help but notice the substantial edit to the gay rights section of Kenney's site," says Chapman. "What was once a cursory, one sentence reference to criticism of Canada's new Citizenship Guide by gay rights groups has been expanded to include an entire paragraph of several sentences with quotes in defense of the revised Guide from none other than Marc
Chalifoux of the Historica-Dominion Institute and military historian Jack Granatstein."
But what really surprised Chapman was the outright removal of an entire section on the Lost Canadians on or around March 4, 2010.
"Fortunately, we had a screen shot of the entry so we were able to put the content back on the site today but we're wondering how long it's going to stay there," asks Chapman, whose group has been in a long running battle with Kenney over the citizenship of a growing number of Lost Canadians.
Lost Canadians include Canadian born World War Two veterans, war bride children, children born abroad to Canadians, children born out of wedlock pre-1947, Mennonites, Border Babies and Military Brats. All have had their citizenship taken away through arcane provisions of the Citizenship Act.
Chapman says the removal of the Lost Canadians section on the Minister's Wikipedia site sometime in the last ten days leaves him wondering who is monitoring and revising the site and if they're doing it on the taxpayer's dollar.
Chapman says he doesn't want to waste resources on such petty games, "but since the Minister refuses to deal with the human rights issues of these remaining Lost Canadians, the only choice is to make sure the truth is told on Wikipedia," he said.
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To see an image of the original posting on Lost Canadians from before March 4, 2010, click here:

To see an image of the re-uploaded Lost Canadian posting from March 15, 2010, click here:

To see an image of the original, one sentence posting on gay rights and the Citizenship Guide, click here:

To see an image of the revised posting on gay rights from March 15, 2010, click here:

To see an image of Kenney's Wikpedia site, after the Lost Canadian posting has been taken down again at 2 am, March 16, 2010, click here:













