From a member of the Poundmaker Working Group;
The CBC-TV Documentary on Poundmaker First Nations`s sordid state of Band Governance will be broadcast at exactly 10:20pm, Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 on “THE NATIONAL”.
It`s a story that involved hard hitting and honest interviews with several high profile people including a former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Janice Switlo and several members from the Poundmaker Working Group.
The doc`y has been in the works for about 6 months and is based strictly on documentation, no heresay, no inuendo. The targeted timeline for broadcast was to intentionally coincide with the FMM taking place in Kelowna this week.
Background here and at Dust My Broom.
Wonder how much money goes back to the LPOC from the corrupt Chiefs? Why not–our money goes to the LPOC from our ‘chief’.
George, at the “Everything Adscam” category on the left sidebar, you’ll find a link to Andrew Anderson’s political contribution search engine. You can answer your question by using general search terms like “Indian” or “First Nations”.
CBC, Honest, Hard hitting. All in the same sentence. Really!!!!
watch and see, personally I have VERY serious doubts about hard hitting or honest anything on CBC especially while the LPC is in full election mode.
This guy sounds like an excellent candidate for Canadian PM. Presuming that you ever get to vote again, of course.
As Kelly said, I to have a very hard time in believing anything the CBC says. The proof was in the Mulroney tapes. Allan.
The residential schools package, which was agreed upon and signed
on Sunday, is expected to commit an immediate $2 billion for
lump-sum payments to individual victims of the schools, as well as
$60 million for a special truth-and-reconciliation commission to
examine, between the next two to five years, the decades-long
scandal of abuse, according to a copy of the agreement obtained
yesterday.
“The parties entered into a settlement agreement for the largest
and most comprehensive settlement package in Canadian history, which
covers decades in time, innumerable events and countless injuries to
First Nations individuals and communities,” states a copy of the
agreement.
Residential schools started operating before Confederation as a
joint venture between the government and religious or missionary
organizations in the country as a way of meeting federal obligations
under the Indian Act and helping to integrate aboriginals into
Canadian society. Ottawa took over full responsibility for running
the schools in 1969.
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, an arm of the federal
government formed to oversee the hundreds of claims made by the
aboriginal abuse victims, estimates that up to 100 of the 130
schools that operated in every province except Newfoundland and
Labrador are involved in legal claims.
Those claims are for such things as physical and sexual abuse and
allegations of cultural loss, breach of treaty, loss of education
opportunity, forcible confinement and other types of abuse,
according to the IRSRC. The organization says about 86,000 people
who attended the schools are alive today.
The IRSRC website shows that in Quebec, two schools in Fort George
(now Chisasibi) were opened before the Second World War. Four more
were added after the war: Amos, Pointe Bleue, Sept-Iles and La
Tuque.
Sources suggested the total package could be worth as much as $4
billion, but senior government officials said last night that figure
is not accurate. The government officials refused to say what the
actual dollar figure would be.
“By the end of this process the government will have spent close to
$4-billion,” said a source with the Assembly of First Nations. >>> more
http://www.charlesadler.com/
http://www.rapp.org/url/?CHK4W7DG
Thanks Kate–interesting–one donation not to the Liberals
More election bribery from AdScam Big White Chief Martin alias The Candy Man, all the way from Ottawa in just one day; Challenger jets will return to Ottawa emptied of wampum.(Not really: this is all empty promises by white man.) Here is a sample of the Chief’s blather:
“He called it a “very, very important conference . . . in terms of the future, really, of the youngest segment of our population.” $$$$$$$$$$$ Headline writer calls the “pow-wow” “historic”!!! It’s hysterical Librano$ desperation; they are going down and out. >>>
Election clouds loom as leaders gather for historic aboriginal summit
By BRUCE CHEADLE
KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) – Prime Minister Paul Martin arrives here Thursday for a two-day first ministers’ meeting on aboriginal affairs amidst signs the unprecedented summit may not prove to be the feel-good election springboard of Liberal hopes.
A five-year commitment of more than $4 billion in federal cash for aboriginal housing, education and health could be buried in this week’s multi-billion-dollar avalanche of pre-election government spending announcements.
And with Martin’s Liberal minority set to collapse on a non-confidence motion Monday in the Commons, there is no guarantee the deal negotiated among five national aboriginal organizations and 13 provincial and territorial leaders will survive.
“I would hope that any political party that has the best interests of aboriginal Canadians and Canadians at heart will support very much what we are doing at this summit,” Martin said following a cabinet meeting Tuesday in Ottawa.
He called it a “very, very important conference . . . in terms of the future, really, of the youngest segment of our population.” via cnews
CBC pulled the documentary at the very last minute, in which I shared some brutal truths. They substituted a doc that presented Martin and the LPC in a good light. I did not.
I do believe that native people have been treated badly over the years. I also think that they are harder on each other than white society is. This recent monetary settlemnt offered by the federal government could make Merchant law firm $40,000,000.00. That’s just a crock. His law firm is taking advantage of someone’s sorrow. Some Lawyers are the Vultures of our society.