Historians Explain Their Objection to Charge of Genocide Against Canada on Treatment of Indigenous Peoples

There are no grounds for the Canadian Historical Association’s claim that all Canada’s historians support genocide allegation, open letter says

The main administrative building at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., circa 1970. Library and Archives Canada/Handout via Reuters

The charge of genocide against Canada in its treatment of indigenous peoples is “factually wrong,” says a historian and international studies professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

“Systematic and deliberate killing on a widespread scale is an absolutely essential component of genocide, and it doesn’t exist in this case,” said Jack Cunningham in an interview.