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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.