| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Yvonne Boyer | |
| Office: | Senator from Ontario |
| Term Start: | March 15, 2018 |
| Nominator: | Justin Trudeau |
| Appointed: | Julie Payette |
| Birth Date: | 25 October 1953 |
| Party: | Independent Senators Group |
| Profession: | Lawyer, professor, administrator |
Yvonne Boyer (born October 25, 1953) is a Canadian lawyer who was named to the Senate of Canada on March 25, 2018, as a Senator for Ontario by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A Métis, Boyer is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Senate from Ontario.[1] She lives in Merrickville, Ontario, near Ottawa.
As a lawyer, Boyer has been outspoken in her criticisms of inequities in Canada's health care in its treatment of and availability to Indigenous peoples.[1]
Boyer is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and has ancestral roots in the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and Red River, Manitoba.[2] As well as being a lawyer, at the time of her appointment to the Upper House she was a professor in the law faculty at the University of Ottawa and associate director at the school's Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics.[1] She is also a former member of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and has also served as in-house counsel for the Native Women's Association of Canada, and as a senior policy analyst and legal adviser at the National Aboriginal Health Organization.[2]
Boyer's appointment to the Senate was recommended by the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments.[2]
In May 2022 together with two other senators Senator Boyer issued a report calling for a review of the convictions of 12 indigenous women, including the Quewezance sisters, and their exoneration.[3]
In June 2022, she introduced Bill S-250 in the Senate, which would make coercing or forcing a person to be sterilized a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in jail.[4]