Goddess

@hot enough Your narrative is not based on fact, so stop spreading lies.  Canadian gov might be guilty of cultural genocide (residential schools) but they didn't try to kill all aboriginals.  Go read a history book.

Genocide is destroying your enemy, slaughtering them, burning them in ovens or piling their heads up outside their cities. All Canada tried to do was teach the indians how to live in a modern world so they didn't have to spend their lives in poverty in the bushes. Too bad it didn't work.

The fact is, Canada has engaged in cultural genocide for well over a century, and then years of covering the crime up.

The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

Article II describes two elements of the crime of genocide:

1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such", and

2) the physical element which includes five acts described in sections a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both elements to be called "genocide."

Article III described five punishable forms of the crime of genocide: genocide; conspiracy, incitement, attempt and complicity.

Excerpt from the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (For full text click here)

"Article II:  In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following 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.

Article III:  The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide; 
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; 
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide; 
(e) Complicity in genocide. "