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Alberta’s education minister defended drafts of a proposed new kindergarten-to-Grade 4 curriculum Wednesday, saying allegations about removing Alberta history from social studies classes are false.

“The suggestion that there’s anything that diminishes the description of Alberta, or the emphasis on Alberta, and the shared history that we have together is a misinterpretation at best,” Education Minister David Eggen said in a Wednesday interview.

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References to Indigenous and francophone perspectives sprinkled throughout the draft documents, which the government released to Postmedia Wednesday, are to honour commitments the government has made to Indigenous people, and provide a more complete picture of Canadian history and culture, he said. The increased emphasis on those perspectives won’t be at the expense of others, Eggen said.

“It’s a significant misinterpretation of the new curriculum to suggest that (social justice) is the pivot point that drives this,” he said.