Birth certificate contradicts Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond s account of her father s parentage and ancestry cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Since publishing its investigation, CBC has received a series of tips that have led to more unanswered questions about Turpel-Lafond. In addition, her ex-husband has decided to speak publicly, saying she is not a "villain or fraudster" but "more like a flawed hero."
After months of declining to directly answer CBC's questions about her father's parentage, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond has now claimed in a statement on Twitter that her father, who she says was Cree, was adopted by her grandparents.
A CBC investigation discovered that some of Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s claims about her Cree ancestry, the community where she grew up and her academic accomplishments are inconsistent with publicly available documents.