Canadian House of Commons declares residential schools a ‘genocide’ without evidence
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Given the fact that not a majority of native children attended the schools, and that a very small percentage died over the decades – which is not to say that the deaths were not tragic in individual cases – it could not be said that a genocide took place, as no intentional mass murder occurred.
(LifeSiteNews) — The Canadian House of Commons has voted unanimously to declare the events that occurred within the country’s now-closed indigenous residential school system a “genocide,” despite no evidence.
The now-passed motion was introduced last Thursday by New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament (MP) Leah Gazan, and called on the federal government to describe what happened at Indian Residential Schools as “genocide.”
Gazan’s motion referred to the United Nations convention on genocide adopted in 1948, defining genocide as murdering members of a group, causing serious physical or mental harm, attempting to destroy them, imposing measures to prevent births or forcibly transferring children to another group for arbitrary reasons.
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CTV News reported the development from parliament and stated: “More than 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children were forced to attend these institutions, which the federal government funded and different churches operated for over a century.”
CTV News failed to mention that the highest estimate of 150,000 children in a span of over a century constitutes at most, one-third of the total child population. By 1950 nearly, 90 per cent of officially-designated native children were attending day schools on their home reserve, not residential schools.