OTTAWA — Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault is apologizing for not being “clear” about his family’s links to Indigenous ancestry as now he says he should have been. 

Boissonnault found himself apologizing after the National Post revealed him to have made shifting statements about his ties to Indigenous heritage over his political career, which started by calling himself “non-status adopted Cree” to saying in a statement last week that his adopted mother and brother were Metis citizens.