Today’s episode features three guests; Graydon Nicholas, Maria Lucas, and former Liberal MP, Robert Falcon-Ouellette.
Graydon is the former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick and the first Indigenous person to hold that role. He has had many prominent roles before and since, including President of the Union of New Brunswick Indians and chair of the Native Studies program at St. Thomas University. Graydon is also a practising Catholic and serves on the board of the Knights of Columbus.
Maria Lucas is a Black-Métis woman whose heritage inspired her to study Indigenous-Crown relations in a historical and political context in her undergraduate degree, which she completed at the University of Toronto. In her studies, she discovered the unique legal framework that informs Indigenous peoples’ relationship with the Crown and she came to understand that the law is key to reconciling this relationship. As a result, she was prompted to pursue law school. She completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Ottawa with a specialization in Aboriginal law and Indigenous legal traditions in April 2019. She is the Co-Founder & Secretary of the Indigenous Catholic Research Fellowship.
In the second part of the episode, we are joined by my friend and former Liberal MP, Robert Falcon-Ouellette. Robert served in the Canadian Forces for over 20 years before entering into politics.
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