Trudeau nominates Indigenous woman to Canada’s supreme court

Michelle O’Bonsawin, an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation and a francophone would be the first Indigenous justice. Photograph: University of Ottawa/AFP/Getty Images

Justin Trudeau has nominated an Indigenous woman to Canada’s supreme court, in a landmark appointment after decades of criticism over a lack of Indigenous representation on the country’s highest court.

The prime minister announced on Friday that Michelle O’Bonsawin had been selected to fill an upcoming vacancy on the court.