The former Liberal candidate appointed by Indigenous-Crown Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett to conduct consultations on First Nation child welfare issues was given a $437,000 contract to do eight months of work, according to internal documents.
Bennett appointed Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, chair of truth and reconciliation at Lakehead University, as her special representative on child welfare in August 2016. The appointment, which ended on March 31, was made following the January 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which found Ottawa discriminated against First Nation children by under-funding child welfare services on-reserve.
Wesley-Esquimaux, who ran for the Liberals in 2011, was required to conduct consultations on child welfare, act as a mediator and conduct media interviews and produce a report on the issue, according to the contract obtained by NDP MP Charlie Angus.
Emphasis mine.
“Wesley-Esquimaux has issued a press release accusing Stephen Harper and the Conservatives of “trying to distract Canadians from his record on taxes with the bogus claim that Liberals would raise taxes on everything from energy use to iPods.”
“She insists there is no support for a carbon tax, notes that the Liberal Party has opposed an iPod levy, and calls the Conservative government, “the biggest-spending and borrowing government in Canadian history.”
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2011/04/27/take-your-pick-york-simcoe-candidate-profiles
She insists, insists I tells you, there is no support for a carbon tax.
Strangely, from the Alberta-Saskatchewan area, I believe her stance on “support” for a carbon tax is correct.
*based on her assertion of no support for a carbon tax, I’m going to guess she doesn’t remember what happened to that $437,000. either. No recollection, nada.
Kinda pretty though, I like that in a gal.
“Kinda pretty though, I like that in a gal. ”
Apparently so did Carol Bennet. I am sure she could have received equal ‘compensation’ without such a high price tag.
However, if one was to look at pretty much any consultant contract issued by the liberals there would be a similar story. It’s not like Bennet has any particularly insight or inspiration to be the first in this class, she is nothing but a pawn and does what everyone around her is doing.
I think this one may not have needed the money. They have learned pretty quickly from the Muslims.
Toronto’s Indigenous consultant resigns, files human rights complaint
But her stint was short-lived. In early July, Kretschmer tendered her resignation over what she calls “disrespectful” treatment of the Indigenous file. She has since filed a complaint at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, claiming the city violated her right to practise smudging, an Indigenous ceremony that involves burning sacred medicines.
“I waited for three months but I was never allowed to smudge in that building,” she said. She wanted Indigenous people to have a specific room at city hall where smudging can be performed, like the prayer/meditation room where members of any religion can pray
This is not a scandal?
Heh, heh, heh. In the old days you white folks would have invested that in firewater. Would have got a better bang for your bucks too.
Kind of lends some perspective on Bev Oda’s orange juice. Liberals are up to their old tricks of special favours for friends. Justin is the shiny thing in the window that keeps Canadians from noticing.
CAPCHA: pony club
My only question is this: Where do I send my cheque?
It’s the same question I have for the AGW / Climate Change folks.
Jeez Jimmy. That’s a lot of whiskey! Better pick up some aspirin too eh?
Ah yes. Smudging. Remember it well.
It was held down the hall. Luckily I wasn’t in for lung surgery that time.
After that, theorized my nurse was half Apache instead of 100% total “B”.
Life in the big city.
“kinda pretty though”, is very very soft sarc/ for those involved in gov’t work, that have had doors opened for them for what they represent and not for what they bring. Some feminists become unhinged when I say this. I claim to not know why.
Actually, Justin Trudeau is “kinda pretty” in this sense. Results may vary.
Cmon, she said she paid back wages to LU while working on the “file”, and HALF her billings went to TAX. So really she only made off with TRAVEL and $16 freshly squeezed orange juice.
“There can be no reconciliation while the government of Canada continues to perpetuate injustices toward First Nations children and their families.”
WTF is the matter with Canadians? The Indian Affairs should have been abolished 100 years ago, and ALL citizens of Canada treated the same..
The Tribunals that rule for Equal treatment for First Nations must first prove that First Nations are equally engaged in Canadian society. The Reconciliation joke must also require Indians to justify why they get Funding & Taxpayer support without responsibility & taxation.. Enough freeloading & one-way reconciliation
The Treaties, as defined by Black Robe & Tribunal Jesters are a farce…Return to the Rule of Law definition that Indigenous only applies to the original tribe…”First Nations” are not Indigenous to Canada…
Let the First Nations sue the Queen if they feel cheated!
Not only do REAL natives receive bullshit $$$$$ for nothing … FAKE natives receive just as much …
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/adriana_cohen/2014/04/cohen_one_percenter_liz_warren_milks_system_then_slams_it_in
I have “high cheekbones” … where’s my FREE $$$$$ ?
Yes, apparently it is perfectly fine for a woman/(insert victim term here) to whore herself to land a position, perfectly moral for a liberal to do the paying of the whore, but unkind and downright racist for someone to point it out. But like everything else with being a socialist, one must be a hypocrite first and foremost.
Heh, heh, heh.
B’zjou, Willy. I ain’t seed from you since the last Parliament Hill potlatch. How’s it going anyways?
Hey Willy, wad’dayatingk (ol’ d’ijnuss word) bouddat (ol’ b’rijnull word) Charlie Angus fella?
Augh geez Jimmy I dunno. Dat Charlie Angus peller’s bin talkin bout Jordan’s Principle, but if dis Jordan peller is de same one I know, I dont tink he’s got dat much principle left.