

Your comment is very short, so I may be reading too much into it. However, most people who deny Residential Schools were part of genocide, simply don’t know the definition. From the UN:
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:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Many people assume genocide can is only something like the Holocaust, where there’s an attempt to exterminate a group, but it can be more subtle, such as, “killing the indian in the child.”
We do not have “northern provinces”, those are territories.
For a less pedantic answer: