‘Indigenous’ Academic Ousted From Government Gig Over Race Faking Claim (Canada)

Daily Beast ^ | Nov. 2, 2021

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A Canadian professor has resigned from a prominent role in the Canadian government’s Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health after being exposed for allegedly faking her identity. Carrie Bourassa has claimed that she has Indigenous Canadian ancestry, but a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation alleges it’s all an act.

Bourassa has said she’s of Métis and Anishinaabe heritage and a descendant of the Tlingit from the Yukon and British Columbia. She’s one of the “most prominent and respected voices on Indigenous health in the country,” who also runs an Indigenous community-based health research lab at the University of Saskatchewan

[nuconvert]

"“It is apparent,” she continued, “that I must adhere to Western ideologies, such as blood quantum, to prove something that the communities I serve, the Elders who support me, and myself already know. Blood quantums are not our way, "

LoL. She's actually of Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian descent.

[2banana]

So much for white privilege.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Trying to take advantage of that minority privilege.

[vpintheak]

And there ya go. If you can’t make it as whitey, try a POC route. What a joke.
Lilly white leftist steals job! LOL!

[nuconvert]

No “trying” about it. She’s been successfully doing it for decades. It helped her get her degrees and her job.

[Tahoe3002]

“My friends are all gone and I’m so far from…and I’m BUSTED…”
Ray Charles

[Flick Lives]

She tried to pull an Elizabeth Warren.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Interesting that those who can’t make it as a white, are good enough to make it as a POC.

[Fester Chugabrew]

As long as she “self-identifies” as indigenous what’s the problem?

[_longranger81]

” ““It is apparent,” she continued, “that I must adhere to Western ideologies, such as blood quantum, to prove something that the communities I serve, the Elders who support me, and myself already know. Blood quantums are not our way, “ “

So you’re saying that “the way” of “your people” is lying? Just making $#!+ up? That’s what you think of Indigenous People? That they’re liars and phonies?

Enough of this crap.

[BlueLancer]

As long as she “self-identifies” as indigenous what’s the problem?

I agree with you ...

I had always been told that "self-identification" trumped all other biological and human conditions ...

I self-identify as a bald-headed old geek, and nobody's challenged me yet ...

[Jess Kitting]

Carrie Bourassa has claimed that she has Indigenous Canadian ancestry, but a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation alleges it’s all an act.

Eliabeth Warren wannabe?

[left that other site]

LoL. She's actually of Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian descent.

Well, that explains the "high cheekbones"! LOL!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Race-taking” = Stolen Color

[ridesthemiles]

She needs to find Elizabeth Warren & commiserate.

[IYAS9YAS]

Indigenous. They keep saying that word. I do not think that word means what they think it means.

[VanShuyten]

My great-grandfather was French/Métis (a catch-all term used for mixed-blood Canadians). He took his family south across the border into Minnesota after the failed Métis Rebellion. They weren’t involved at all, but being French and Indian in English Canada, he decided to try his luck in the US.

Good choice!

[nuconvert]

She’s saying....We don’t believe in science so don’t confuse us with the facts.