By Brenna Owen THE CANADIAN PRESS Retired senator Lillian Dyck said she was “stunned” to see reports last fall questioning the Indigenous heritage of former judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose story she had related to, and whose career she had celebrated. Dyck, who is Cree and Chinese Canadian, said in an interview on Thursday she thought “hallelujah” as Turpel-Lafond became Saskatchewan’s first Indigenous female judge in 1998. It was “wonderful” to know Turpel-Lafond had overcome the numerous challenges Indigenous women disproportionately face in their personal lives and careers, said the professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan. “And then I found out, it was all a facade.” Dyck said a CBC investigation convinced her that Turpel-Lafond lied about being Indigenous, specifically Cree, causing real harm by exploiting the

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