You wrote: " Not everybody accepts the premise that First Nations have been subjected to genocide, at least in the modern era, and some consider the use of the term by First Nations as being in itself tantamount to cultural appropriation."

Here is what constitutes genocide under the UN’s convention on Genocide (1948):

(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; and

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

It appears that you are buying the poisonous notions that the Asper offspring are attempting to flog at their CMHR.

The Canadian Establishment still has an awful lot of resources to extract while they continue to destroy the environment. It's anathema to them to admit they are still the plundering and rapacious settlers they have always been.