Robert Jago takes a more critical view, writing in today's Toronto Star that the "revelation of King’s true ancestry was far from a surprise to Indigenous people. This has been a persistent rumour in Indian Country for years."

Jago quotes from a Facebook post by "Crystal Semaganis of the Ghost Warrior Society (a Pretendian hunting organization)" that "He was trying to get ahead of an imminent public relations disaster"

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/thomas-kings-admission-he-isnt-indigenous-is-just-the-first-step-this-is-what-has/article_ad5f13b9-20fa-49b3-9eb3-6a961a06f350.html

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Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next

Though not a shock to some, it's time to reckon with the harm done.

Toronto Star