Meet Montreal’s commissioner of Indigenous affairs – CBC

Marie-Ève Bordeleau says she will work to develop a holistic reconciliation plan for the city

Feb 07, 2018

Montreal’s newly minted commissioner of Indigenous affairs, Marie-Ève Bordeleau, says the job is a tailor-made mix of who she is both professionally and personally.

“I’m from a mixed family. My mother is not First Nations and my father is Cree,” said Bordeleau, who grew up between Montreal and Senneterre, in the Abitibi region of Quebec, in a house where reconciliation was worked on daily.

“I think (my parents) showed me that both people can be together, live together and be in peace,” said Bordeleau. Her father is Georges Pisimopeo of Waswanipi and mother is Quebecoise author and producer Lucie Lachapelle.