So the lady (a college professor) hired by the Canadian government as a expert on indigenous peoples' health care has been fired after her colleagues got suspicious about her increasing claims about belonging to native groups.
CBC News investigated and according to the article found: "Far from being a member of the Métis nation, as she had long claimed, a laborious trace of Bourassa’s family tree revealed that her supposedly indigenous ancestors were in fact immigrant farmers who hailed from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia."
CBC News investigated and according to the article found: "Far from being a member of the Métis nation, as she had long claimed, a laborious trace of Bourassa’s family tree revealed that her supposedly indigenous ancestors were in fact immigrant farmers who hailed from Russia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia."
Canada’s indigenous health expert Carrie Bourassa loses job when ancestry claims prove false
Carrie Bourassa has lost her government job and university professorship after suspicious colleagues investigated her claims of Native American heritage and learned she was a fraud.
nypost.com