Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada terminated by Governor General [Video]

Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Order of Canada has been terminated, nearly three decades after she was appointed in 1997.

The federal government’s official publication posted the notice Friday evening, indicating that Governor General Mary Simon ordered the termination of Sainte-Marie’s appointment on Jan. 3.

The National Post first published the story.

Sainte-Marie is only the ninth person to be expelled from the Order of Canada in its more than 50-year history, the Office of the Secretary to the Governor General confirmed.

The announcement comes more than a year after an investigation from CBC’s The Fifth Estate reported that her claims of Indigenous ancestry were inconsistent with publicly available documents.

The investigation, from Oct. 27, 2023, found Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate, which says she was born in 1941 in Massachusetts. The document lists the baby and parents as white and includes a signature of an attending physician — information CBC says is corroborated by Sainte-Marie’s marriage certificate, a life insurance policy and the United States census.

In November 2023, …