Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that beautiful testimony. This day, today's debates are rather special. There have been some very moving testimonies just like the other evening when we had the take-note debate.
I think that, in a debate like this one, words matter. The other evening and today as well, to the question as to whether those children and indigenous peoples in general have experienced a cultural genocide in the past 150 years in Canada, I have no doubt. I get the feeling that my colleague has no doubt about that either. The House is not unanimous on this. People on both the Liberal and Conservative sides do not agree with that term.
My question is this: What do members of the first nations call this phenomenon?
What do they call the experience children had in the residential schools, in other words the fact that these children were kidnapped, transported across the world, uprooted and stripped of their culture?
Do the first nations see this as cultural genocide?