The Rover: Exclusive Interview with Canada's first Innu Senator

Michèle Audette on genocide, politics and the Indigenous women who "shook the world."

It may have been a first in Canadian politics. 

On one end of the line, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On the other, a future senator and the raccoon her family had rescued.

“My teenager, three grandchildren, two dogs and a raccoon… They’re all running around, having fun, moving and shaking, it’s a Friday afternoon,” said Michèle Audette, who was appointe…