The report concludes Canada’s actions, both historically and currently, do constitute genocide, and it repeatedly uses the term throughout. “This report is about deliberate race, identity and gender-based genocide,” says the opening paragraph from Chief commissioner Marion Buller. But to help bolster its position, it issued a 43-page legal analysis of genocide and why it should apply to Canada’s overall treatment of Indigenous people. The report’s legal analysis is rooted in the definition contained in the 1948 Genocide Convention. “We’re going to leave the discussion of the actual use of the term genocide to academics and experts,” said Justice Minister David Lametti on Monday after the report came out.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 00:28 UTC