Boissonnault says he came up with confusing ‘non-status adopted Cree’ term
Edmonton Centre MP Randy Boissonnault told a parliamentary committee on Thursday that he came up with the term “non-status adopted Cree,” contradicting previous statements where he said an Indigenous researcher provided him with the identifier.
The former cabinet minister’s office claimed in mid-November that the term was “explained to him by an Indigenous researcher” while Boissonnault, who was adopted, researched his family lineage.“It was an explanation of his adoptive family’s Indigenous history as they understood it at the time,” Alice Hansen, Boissonnault’s director of communications, wrote in a statement on Nov. 13.But at a House of Commons committee Thursday morning, Boissonnault said he created the term himself.“I came up with the term ‘non-status adopted Cree’ because I thought i...
