Canadian Justice 1/3: Is Canada's "best" "indigenous" lawyer a pretendian?

0:15 Background
2:28 Profile
7:11 Claim to indigenous identity
17:48 Mary-Ellen Turpel-Lafond
19:06 Conclusion

Katherine Hensel—of Ukrainian (Viking Rus settler) ancestry—spent her career as a lawyer pretending to be indigenous to British Columbia and reaping the benefits of it from Big Law to the University of Toronto, where she taught as an adjunct professor despite only having an English major.

Hensel currently works for Foglers: a Caucasian Zionist law firm. As this case demonstrates, her supporters in the government, judiciary and media know she is a racist fraud. However, they continue to cover it up, since to incriminate her would incriminate them.

In this case, which is reminiscent of a Black Cube operation, the Law Society paid Hensel over $100,000 to accuse Hamza, a Muslim lawyer and academic, based on spurious sources, of being a pseudo-intellectual racist and a misogynist with bizarre views (2024 HRTO 480 para. 6) for allegedly calling her a “white Indian”. These accusations were received as evidence and repeated as conclusions by her fellow Ukrainian judge Cyndee Cherniak, parroting her fellow pretendian judge Thomas Heeney, who has less than an arts major.

Most surprising (or unsurprising given the history of European colonialism) is that the courts—together with the media and Law Society—explicitly endorsed the ‘disfranchisement’ of illegitimate descendants of European settler-colonialists, since miscegenation was illicit, or at least taboo, until the end of the 20th c.; see, e.g., Debra Thompson, “Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America” (Dept. of Political Science, University of Toronto, May 2008) at 2.

In other words, the media and judiciary, which smeared Hamza, explicitly acknowledged Hensel as an indigenous person, endorsed the rape of indigenous people by European settler-colonialists (2024 HRTO 480 para. 26), and affirmed their descendants’ right to claim the identities and property of indigenous people instead of those of their rapist European ancestors; cp., e.g., Radio-Canada, “il veut un juge « indien rouge »” (5 Feb 2021) CBC and CBC News, “Profiles of 5 indigenous lawyers” (29 Dec 2015) CBC.