Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault has apologized following scrutiny over inconsistencies in his claims of indigenous heritage.
Speaking to reporters in Edmonton on Nov. 15, the minister said he’s sorry for “not being as clear” as he could have been about his family’s indigenous heritage, and said he asked the Liberal Party to correct the record in references that referred to him as indigenous.
“I apologize unequivocally and I’ll end it there,” he said.
Boissonnault has never said he was indigenous, but previously referred to himself as “non-status adopted Cree from Alberta” and said his great-grandmother was a “full-blooded Cree woman.”…