The nomination is the first time that an aboriginal woman has been named to head an advisory body to the Quebec government. The allegations reverberate to this day as Montreal police conduct an investigation into the provincial force. According to a recent report citing anonymous sources, there have been 75 police brutality complaints from both aboriginal men and women. The issue seems unlikely to escape the inquiry’s radar, given that one of its commissioners, Michèle Audette, is a former president of Quebec Native Women, a provincial advocacy group. “I’m a woman of challenges, a woman of action.”

Source: thestar October 22, 2016 01:18 UTC