A former staffer for a Manitoba senator says she felt forced to resign over the fallout from a complaint she made alleging a co-worker was falsely claiming an Indigenous identity. It's a term that's been used by academics like Darryl Leroux, author of Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity, to describe people who previously identified as white and then start self-identifying as Indigenous. Indigenous identity in Canada from 2006, 2011 and 2016 according to Statistics Canada. "There's just something grossly colonial about the thought of somebody falsely claiming a Métis identity working on amendments to the Indian Act," she said. "Human resources didn't care there was somebody falsely claiming a Métis identity in the Senate [and] neither did the senator," she said.

Source: CBC News July 30, 2020 07:52 UTC