Michael Downey’s Canada’s ‘Genocide’: Thousands Taken from Their Homes Need Help paints the painful consequences of the decades-long Canadian policy which allowed First Nations children to be seized from their parents by provincial governments and placed with white adoptive families in homes around the world. Downey opens his essay with the story of someone forced through the system and yet goes on to reach success in life despite the early tragedy, which automatically captures the reader’s interest. By placing both specific and non-specific examples throughout the text, he keeps the focus on the system’s actions to eradicate the Aboriginals’ culture, while also being able to keep the reader emotionally attached. In an emotional yet informational