Madam Chair, there is no category for cultural genocide. Genocide is genocide. We cannot classify genocide. It falls under the UN Genocide Convention. Forcefully removing children from one group to another group, I would say, meets all the criteria that classify a genocide, although some argue with that. If we want to reconcile in this country then we need to own the truth. We cannot continue to minimize the truth. What happened and continues to happen against indigenous people is genocide, full stop.
In the House of Commons on June 1st, 2021. See this statement in context.