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: Try to keep letters to fewer than 150 words, according to Globe and Mail. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. To submit a letter by e-mail, click here: letters@globeandmail.com This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone ‘Cultural genocide’ Like many Canadians, I am pleased to see the Chief Justice speaking out strongly about the prolonged – some would say ongoing – attempt to transform this nation indigenous people into something other than what they were before the arrival of European colonizers . But her deliberate use of the term cultural genocide is ill-advised. While an objective examination of how Canada indigenous people have been treated over the past 300 years certainly reveals self-serving, callous chapters in that history, one also finds well-intended policies and actions aimed at preventing the total destruction of those people. Although labelling this part of Canada history as genocide – even with the modifying word cultural – helps emphasize the sweep and destructive effects of non-aboriginal attempts to solve the Indian problem, employing the term to describe any serious attack on a particular group broadens its application, and there is a danger that, like other once-powerful words debased by ill-considered usage, the term genocide will lose its power to horrify and produce revulsion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.