Debating Canada's military roles: From Vimy, to the WWII allied bombing of Germany, to the current Afghan campaign, who gets to write history and does it ever stop being written?

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Tim Cook is an historian at the Canadian War Museum, and author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two.

Don Elliott is a former POW, a retired lawyer, and the leader of the Mayday Committee. He also led the (failed) class-action suit against the CBC over The Valour and the Horror. For a backgrounder, read At War With The War Museum in Legion Magazine.

Michael Petrou is a senior writer with Maclean's, and author of Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.

Mercedes Stephenson is host of the national, weekly, current affairs series MSI (Mercedes Stephenson Investigates). She's also vice president of the Breakout Educational Network, a registered, non-profit, charitable foundation.

Mercedes Stephenson is host of the national, weekly, current affairs series MSI (Mercedes Stephenson Investigates). She's also vice president of the Breakout Educational Network, a registered, non-profit, charitable foundation.

Tim Cook is an historian at the Canadian War Museum, and author of Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume Two.

Alan Echenberg is a senior producer for the Agenda with Steve Paikin and has been TVO's Ottawa bureau chief since 1998. In his fifteen seasons in the Parliament Hill bureau of TVO, he has produced dozens of field documentaries and hundreds of studio interviews and discussions. He's covered five federal elections, one referendum, one ice storm, one Grey Cup, one Alanis Morissette concert, one hot-air balloon festival, several playoff collapses by the Ottawa Senators, and many other stories. Somewhere in there, his efforts on one particular show helped win TVO a Gemini Award. Follow Alan on Twitter.

Alan Echenberg is a senior producer for the Agenda with Steve Paikin and has been TVO's Ottawa bureau chief since 1998. In his fifteen seasons in the Parliament Hill bureau of TVO, he has produced dozens of field documentaries and hundreds of studio interviews and discussions. He's covered five federal elections, one referendum, one ice storm, one Grey Cup, one Alanis Morissette concert, one hot-air balloon festival, several playoff collapses by the Ottawa Senators, and many other stories. Somewhere in there, his efforts on one particular show helped win TVO a Gemini Award. Follow Alan on Twitter.

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