Madam Chair, I wonder if the minister and my friend across the way would agree with me that what happened in residential school is a genocide as defined under the UN Genocide Convention, which states:
...acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group;
b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Does my friend and the minister agree that what happened in residential school was, in fact, a genocide, not a cultural one, to which there is no definition under the convention, but genocide?