Why it is critical to view Canada as a settler-colonial state?

You must use a minimum of 4 readings, two of the class reading should be used.

Class readings
Wolfe, Patrick. Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native.
Journal of Genocide Research 8, no.4 (2006): 387-409

Chapter 4 Wood, Ellen M. Empire of Capital. London: Verso Press, 2003.

Does the Colonial Exist? Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized.
London: Souvenir Press, 1974