Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., accept return of 2016 honorary degree awarded to former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Officials at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., have accepted the return of an honorary degree awarded to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the former judge and law professor whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited.
She says the university gave Turpel-Lafond an opportunity to either relinquish the degree or “make representations on the issues at hand,” and she chose to return it. The former B.C. representative for children and youth has said she is Cree on her father’s side, and told The Canadian Press earlier this month that she’s satisfied in her past work, identity and self-worth, and it’s “liberating” to be freed of honours because it permits her to “focus on what really matters” in her life.
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