Randy Boissonnault, also known as the Strong Eagle Man, needs to soar away from public office. The politician — who once regaled Parliament with the story of his alleged Cree bird-of-prey title — must resign.

Randy the Strong Eagle Man — not to be confused with Macho Man Randy Savage of the formerly World Wrestling Federation — can now be added to the annals of Indige-nots: a short but ignominious list of disgraced Canadian public figures who’ve leveraged a fictitious, or greatly exaggerated, Indigenous identity to further their careers.