This is the usual tiresome rant that we hear from our so-called first nations. Using the word "genocide" to  describe Canada's  record  is a totally unacceptable insult to all the Rwandans, Jews, Armenians, and  others who were victims of real genocide. The residential schools were not a successful experiment but were well-intentioned because teaching native children to speak English and was the only possible way to help them cope with the modern world. After we abandoned that approach Pierre Trudeau suggested a different approach: abolish the Indian Act and give native people the same rights as all other Canadians. All the native elites howled and screamed in response and Pierre Trudeau backed down. So what next? "Aboriginal self-government" is a non-starter unless all the indigenous people are moved into one province (Manitoba?) which would become a gigantic reserve. Rewriting our history to pretend that Canada has existed for thousands of years is total nonsense and helps no one.