Claim: Yvonne Boyer, a lawyer and member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, was the first Indigenous person from Ontario appointed to Canada's Senate.
Evidence: As a lawyer, Boyer has been outspoken in her criticisms of inequities in Canada's health care in its treatment of and availability to Indigenous peoples. Boyer is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and has ancestral roots in the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and Red River, Manitoba. A Métis, Boyer is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Senate from Ontario. Yvonne Boyer (born October 25, 1953) is a Canadian lawyer who was named to the Senate of Canada on March 25, 2018, as a Senator for Ontario by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.