Indigenous Manitoba legislator shares story of sexual abuse, ripple effects
OTTAWA — At eight years old, Nahanni Fontaine remembers waking up with her knees up and her panties down after family members built a place for her to sleep on the floor while guests were over.
“I couldn’t figure out what was going on,” she said. “I certainly know I didn’t go to bed like that.”
Fontaine —now an NDP member of the Manitoba legislature — says she was just five when she was sexually abused for the first time.
“I remember that as if it happened just yesterday.”