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Fantastic work.
Why did “respectable” news agencies like CBC wait to cover this? $104 million missing and that is not news-worthy?
Also, the violence-approving Pam Palmater questions the “leak”:
“”This is classic Conservative deflection,” she said in an email exchange with Yahoo! Canada News.
“They are desperate now as they can’t control this movement which is getting lots of attention so they will try to attack people that highlight the movement.”
Palmater also questions the content of the report noting that Indian and Northern Affairs Canada had co-managers in place in Attawpiskat who were supposed to have reviewed and approved the Band’s annual audits.
Regardless, Palmater says that Deloitte’s findings are irrelevant to the Idle No More movement.”
Sure, Miss Palmater, sure… http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/idle-no-more-spokesperson-calls-leak-attawapiskat-audit-185144623.html
present Chief Escalade with an invoice and handcuffs.
and Paul Martin with a great big cup of shut the f— up .
Shiney pony isnt neighing much either.
This should just be the start. In fact, audits should be conducted on every single band business that is on contract with DeBeers. It would be interesting to see just who the principles of those businesses are and where all THOSE millions of dollars have gone. This is just going to get uglier and uglier as the onion is skinned one stinking layer at a time.
“The “respectable” MSM (now, that’s an oxymoron!) was far more concerned about the PM’s car being sent to India rather than a mere $104,000,000 missing. The PM’s car tempest-in-a-teapot might gin up mud on Harper & the Conservatives, whereas the missing $104,000,000 reflected on a Politically Correct official non-Caucasian “victim” group.
“They were hoping to smear Chief Spence and in so doing smear Idle. However, most Canadians will find it a little more than obvious.”
The “obvious” is that the average Canadian citizen despite some of the MSM attempts to harness the story against the Conservatives, found an outlet to finally vent years of frustrations towards the FN double standard.
Yes, okay, there are millions of dollars of clearly fraudulent “expenses” coming out of working Canadian taxpayers’ pockets, but, on the other hand, Harper! Bush! Thatcher! Neo-cons! White privilege! Racism!
Did I get that about right?
Kevin Newman’s worst interview ever. Here he is with Chief Escalade’s spokesman, Danny Metatawabin with one soft ball after another. The spokesman compares this spectacle to the birth of Christ and the reaction of Newman is? Go to the next question. http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=837934&playlistId=1.1102803&binId=1.811561
These people just NEVER give up,do they?
Spence has been “outted”,by a respectable accounting firm that does forensic audits all over the world. This small-time and not particularly bright criminal is about to get her day in Court.
The taxpayers are sick to death of FN blackmailing politicians who steal as much as they can get their hands on and constantly BLAME DE WHITE MAN!
It’s over,Theresa. As the saying goes, you can fool some of the people ALL the time,but this time even the wilfully blind MSM is on to your scam.
When you’ve lost the readers of that bastion of Liberalism,the CBC,you’ve lost the battle.
Now go eat some bannock and moose meat and prepare for your trial.
You forgot the 100% of the Indians that were molested at the residential schools but other than that you covered it.
Well, I’ve decided to start doing my accounting Indian style. So, 80% of my income will have been spent on “stuff connected to my practice”. No receipts (although most of my cash receipts seem to fade within a week) and I’ve sure that revenue Canada will have no difficulty accepting my simplified accounting method. After all, it’s how multi-million organizations do business in this country. If anyone objects, I’ll threaten to go on a hunger strike and accuse them of prejudice against minorities (being a white Ukrainian doctor I’m clearly a member of a minority group. Also, being born in Canada, I’m a native of the country).
Once I point out the precedent set in Attawapiskat, I’m sure that the tax department will leave me alone. If they don’t leave me alone, I’ll go on a hunger strike where I will limit myself to a diet of Cambozola cheese and champagne.
Somebody should pay for the remaining members of the Attawhatascam FN to fly down to Ottwhatscam for a few days of meetings with Chief HBB to be broadcast live on CPAC. Have them ask where have all the millions gone?
The mind boggles at the lack of Federal Gov’t oversight over the past many years. How in Hell was this allowed to continue year over year?
I shudder to think what would have happened to ME had I played that fast and loose with my own financial dealings (Taxes) with Ottawa.
A comment above says the CBC is not on this. That’s not true, in fact the Attawapiskat audit has been their top story online all day. Credit where credit is due: they’ve been really fair and honest about the Idlers and how the govt and PMSH have handled it.
When the CBC calls you out for being a parasite on the taxpayer, you know you’re in trouble.
Solid gold comment from CBC. I would have considered it classic satire if not for the vague whining about the environment and corporations…
“There should be no need for us to be accountable for anything. We are sovereign Nations and canada has the fiduciary responsibility to look after us. Non-natives should turn their negative energies against the government in charge and hold them accountable for destroying the environment and selling out to the evil corporations that actually rule this country.”
Thank God for Ezra Levant and Sun News for exposing this outrage, when nobody else would.
If you can judge a man by his enemies, then Ezra Levant is the most hated man in Canada
A lot of people are getting rich off this never ending corruption, and they blew it big time expecting Canadians to see Theresa Spence as a martyr.
One comment on another website said that Chief Spence has two sons in jail for murder, but I can’t find any confirmation of this, not even a bio of this woman.
Anyone know?
Those who went to her hunger teepee, Justin Trudeau, Joe Clark, Paul Martin, Doc Fry, Doc Bennett sure lost credibility with the revelation. Of course we all know they were doing it to feed what they perceived their latest gotcha and to embarrass the PM. They failed, Spence should apologize and not another dollar should be passed over without being accounted for.
Through all this our Prime Minister looks solid, another reminder we are in good hands.
Sooke, I find this highly doubtful. In the first place, should such an alleged event have taken place the individuals would have faced a native Indian “sentencing circle” where such important factors such as the guilt of the white man in stealing their land and the crushing psychologic impact of not having an Escalade would have played an important role. I would also expect that members of the “sentencing circle” would be generously rewarded for their services in undocumented funds by the chief.
I look forward to seeing a mug shot of former chief Spence when she enters a federal penitentiary for the crimes she’s committed. Or maybe I should be saying alleged crimes as she likely didn’t have the benefit of going to a residential school to learn how to add and subtract and it’s hard to deal with millions of dollars when you’ve run out of fingers and toes to keep track of the money.
Wonder if bombastic showboater Charlie Angus has lost his voice over this? He certainly cannot defend this and retain any credibility at all. Guess he’ll let Curley/Paul Dewar flail in the wind on the subject.
Meanwhile, what they totally miss is how much of this anger is about the money not going to help “the people”. It’s not just that it’s unaccounted for, it’s that it’s not helping people. Don’t all these Idle types and white liberals care about this?
Someone should ask Paul Martin “where’s the cheque for that Adscam $100 million that was stolen by the Libranno regime.”
He said he’d cut a cheque, ok. Where is it?
Canadians have long memories when it comes to getting robbed.
The Idles have an opportunity to roll up their sleeves and head to Attawapiskat and help distribute goods that’s been wearhoused since the idle folks on the reserve haven’t got time to volunteer their services to even help themselves.
It would be interesting to know how they expect to sustain themselves with no employment in that place and no future for their children. It appears our tax dollars are flowing into a black hole.It also appears many Liberals like Paul Martin are OK with that, it’s the way they operated for years, the Indians squawk and they toss them some money.
Loki: “I look forward to seeing a mug shot of former chief Spence when she enters a federal penitentiary for the crimes she’s committed.”
Life in a penitentiary would be too lenient. Chief Spends should be sentenced to life on the Attawapiskat Reserve, no reprieves, no trips south, no Escalade, no perks at all. She should have to live in one of the substandard domiciles she’s sentenced the other members of her band to live in, on a fixed income, with no respite.
Her “leadership” is an unmitigated disaster, a scandal of epic proportions, but I fear she’s going to be only temporarily embarrassed by the exposure of her gross mismanagement of gazillion$ of taxpayer dollars and that life on the Attawapiskat Rez will return to “normal” by next month.
BTW, Merry Christmas, Loki!
If IdleNOMore focussed on the corruption within the Chief system then I think I could get behind it.
That being said there are some fantastic Chiefs out there. But I they are a minority. This is corruption and the Dept Of Indian Affairs or whatever it is called now is handcuffed in looking into it.
Chief Spence was the one who was saying they didnt need an audit in the first place and said they wanted to and were capable of running their own affairs. Now she claims the government should have been taking care of things. She is on both sides of the issue.
All the other dirty chiefs are going to abandon her because they get audited next.
The clean ones will want the audits and the changes.
Idle no More thought they could just be a lefty Harper protest and now they are goign to find that maybe the community they purport to represent wants changes that they arent apart of.
I think the government is playing this one correctly and is driving towards a proper solution. But it will take FN co-operation to get there.
And all the Libs who think they are helping the community by emoting and ignoring major problems in accountability, management etc of their “clients” are perpetuating the poverty. They need to think real hard and search their souls as to why they are supportiung the wrong side in this issue.
Gord, WK is now whining about the Sun not publishing his “double down”…enjoy.
Ezra must get tired of hauling out the hand puppets to school consensus journalists in how investigative reporting works.
“There should be no need for us to be accountable for anything. We are sovereign Nations and canada has the fiduciary responsibility to look after us. Non-natives should turn their negative energies against the government in charge and hold them accountable for destroying the environment and selling out to the evil corporations that actually rule this country.”
I wonder how many “sovereign” nations are wholly dependant on another nation’s government and their protected position within that nation for all of their income.
Palmateer, IS, from Liarson University remember.
Contradictions abound.
You cannot be both a sovereign nation, as the natives self-assert AND depend on ‘external’ funding of your sovereign nation.
The reality is, the natives don’t own the land. It’s over. They live on reserves by the grace of the government. The Harper government is trying to give them rights-of-ownership by enabling them to at least lease the land and move into a market economy. It’s that, or continued welfare dependency.
You cannot exist as a nation without an internal economy; that is, you must produce your own wealth.
Since the natives, by their own actions, refuse to follow their ancient economy of hunting and fishing, and want, instead, modern homes and technology, then they must enable their ‘sovereign nation’ to function with a wealth-producing economy to purchase those modern goods.
They refuse; they insist instead on being dependent on federal funding. This is psychologically and socially disastrous because it exists within an infantile existence of dependency.
You cannot accept public funding AND refuse to account, with documentation, for every penny of that money. Government is accountable to the taxpayer.
Note: Natives pay no tax on this money.
You cannot accept public funding and insist that your use of it be kept hidden.
Either live as you were 300 years ago or join the modern world. BUT, this means that you must engage in wealth production since the goods you want are not found in the forest.
By the way, the audit was completed last August and sent to Spence. She knew about it. She is fighing, I think, against any move by the government to enable the development of a private economy into the reserves. She and her cohorts would lose out in this.
Here is a comment from a poster on Chief Spend-a-lot and the NDP NP.
“Apparently they finally found FLIP FLOP Charlie stuck up Spense’s butt, he forgot to write his name on the bottom of his shoes”
“60K a year will buy a lot of beer.”
— Timbuk3
At least the mainstream media has stopped calling it a hunger strike. Now it’s just a liquid diet. Along with the fish broth, I suspect we also have other liquids involved given the continued presence of multiple chins.
For example:
Milkshakes, STeak and potato tea, Big Mac and cheesburger blender delights, etc…etc..
Idle No More is an attempt to take over the AFN by a coalition of the left. Palmater failed, dismally, to win leadership of the AFN so she is trying undermine the organisation and the democratically elected leadership to use this potentially powerful lobby group to undermine the Stephen Harper government and push a left wing agenda. The fuzzy demands and emotionalism speak to the frustrations of a group of people who really have no idea what they want, other than what the whiteman has, yet cling to an old identity. Where is Palmeter getting her funding?
There are solid, intelligent, well educated and caring people at the helm of the AFN and I am sure they recognise Idle No More for what it is. I trust they are strong enough to fend off this attack and continue representing the many Native Indians who have joined the Canadian economy and work for what they have in spite of their frustrations.
The release date on the audit is September 28th.
Who got copies then and why was’t it made public at that time.
The Chief and her boyfriend need a full forensic audit as well. Canada needs to know if any of the lost funds found their waty into their property holdings, bank accounts or other wealth sources.
Norm on January 8, 2013 11:34 AM |
That is what I am hearing too. The media may try to put a united face on the movement but it is in fact a schism. Many are correct in stating that these folks will never be satisfied and are not even trying to find common ground. My hope is that the govt will stand ready to extend a hand to those willing to work together and turn away from those who seek only to disrupt.
Right on Fred…
There are FN who do run competitive businesses from their reserves; and don’t descend into third world dictatorship fiefdoms like “Ate-a-whopper-scat”.
$500 million down the proverbial black hole and former PM Paul Martin is braying about Ms Spends Too Much being an ‘inspiration’.
Yep, and Adscam was an ‘inspiration’ as well; as long as you were on the receiving end of the un-receipted accounting mechanism.
I don’t care what color of skin you have, everybody can recognize an obvious financial ‘hustle’.
Next Paul Martin will tell us that the ridiculous gun registry was a great deal; where a mere 2 billion just disappeared off the books.
Chief Spends Too Much is merely attempting to feather her own personal nest at the expense of others on the reserve. Yeah, nice unaccountable deal if you can get it.
Props to Ezra for shining a little light on the financial dung heap that calls itself “Ate-a-whopper-scat.”
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
What about the $50 million Tony Clement misappropriated from border security to build gazebos in his riding? What about Bev Oda? Etc.
Leftists are just like kids, ‘Tommy, and everybody else, are doing that, why can’t I?’
What about lberia?
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In the old days ‘Chiefs’ were chiefs because they proved to be good leaders. And if they stopped being good leaders the people stopped paying any attention to them. They weren’t elected, they earned the right, and had to keep earning it.
Isn’t ‘democracy’ wonderful?
You cannot be both a sovereign nation, as the natives self-assert AND depend on ‘external’ funding of your sovereign nation.
Israel does…
The left-wing CBC is engaging in shoddy journalism by undermining Chief Spence. I therefore believe the CBC should be defunded of its billions.
Perhaps those within the community of “professional” “journalists” possessing the necessary analytical and mathematical skills could write a column containing a concise analysis of the problems of the FNs, and an estimate of the amount of money required to find resolution. I am assuming, of course, that the motivations of the “professional” “journalists” is to solve the problem to which they draw attention, rather than advancing their own position in the pecking order within their “profession” by demonstrating their individual powers to influence the average GTA voting age female.
Has anybody checked to find out if Charlie Angus is holding a seance at 787 Dundas St. W to conjure up the ghost of Jack for advice?
Ezra and Sun News have effectively interupted the normal MSM process. The standard MO of the CBC and their MSM cohorts is to blast anti-conservative messages like this Idle no-more protest.
Then when the facts come out (and you could say the facts were out, but ignored by the MSM), simply move on to the next big anti-conservative story.
However Ezra and Sun saw through this from the start, now the MSM is forced to report the mismanagement of Spence et al.
It may be a small victory for facts and truthful reporting, but it is a step in the right direction. Perhaps the MSM will reconsider their methods now that more and more people are on to their tactics.
Akin was just saying that a Glob al reporter was threatened with arrest at Attawapiskat. Reporters are also now being asked whether they are “friend or foe” at the Victoria Island weight-watchers camp. They have officially entered the end faze.
Once again CBC caught lying to taxpayers, what does it take to kill the zombie?
The beauty of the fawning coverage of Chief Fish Broth,I’m starvin here, by CTV and CBC is wonderful.
Blatantly defending and trying to hide the indefensible.
Now I can ask the Save CBC sucks, How low will you go?
Course when your own organization CBC wastes 1.2 billion tax dollars a year, why would some one wasting a mere 34 million/year even register?
Tax payers do not mind CBC (according to CBC) so whats Chief Moose stew= starvation’s, little mismanagement?
I used to feel sorry for Canadas first peoples. Thought they got a raw deal. After watching these types of hijinks, I just look at them as NDP or Liberals in feathers.
Fantastic work.
Why did “respectable” news agencies like CBC wait to cover this? $104 million missing and that is not news-worthy?
Also, the violence-approving Pam Palmater questions the “leak”:
“”This is classic Conservative deflection,” she said in an email exchange with Yahoo! Canada News.
“They are desperate now as they can’t control this movement which is getting lots of attention so they will try to attack people that highlight the movement.”
Palmater also questions the content of the report noting that Indian and Northern Affairs Canada had co-managers in place in Attawpiskat who were supposed to have reviewed and approved the Band’s annual audits.
Regardless, Palmater says that Deloitte’s findings are irrelevant to the Idle No More movement.”
Sure, Miss Palmater, sure…
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/idle-no-more-spokesperson-calls-leak-attawapiskat-audit-185144623.html
present Chief Escalade with an invoice and handcuffs.
and Paul Martin with a great big cup of shut the f— up .
Shiney pony isnt neighing much either.
This should just be the start. In fact, audits should be conducted on every single band business that is on contract with DeBeers. It would be interesting to see just who the principles of those businesses are and where all THOSE millions of dollars have gone. This is just going to get uglier and uglier as the onion is skinned one stinking layer at a time.
“The “respectable” MSM (now, that’s an oxymoron!) was far more concerned about the PM’s car being sent to India rather than a mere $104,000,000 missing. The PM’s car tempest-in-a-teapot might gin up mud on Harper & the Conservatives, whereas the missing $104,000,000 reflected on a Politically Correct official non-Caucasian “victim” group.
“They were hoping to smear Chief Spence and in so doing smear Idle. However, most Canadians will find it a little more than obvious.”
The “obvious” is that the average Canadian citizen despite some of the MSM attempts to harness the story against the Conservatives, found an outlet to finally vent years of frustrations towards the FN double standard.
Yes, okay, there are millions of dollars of clearly fraudulent “expenses” coming out of working Canadian taxpayers’ pockets, but, on the other hand, Harper! Bush! Thatcher! Neo-cons! White privilege! Racism!
Did I get that about right?
Kevin Newman’s worst interview ever. Here he is with Chief Escalade’s spokesman, Danny Metatawabin with one soft ball after another. The spokesman compares this spectacle to the birth of Christ and the reaction of Newman is? Go to the next question.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=837934&playlistId=1.1102803&binId=1.811561
These people just NEVER give up,do they?
Spence has been “outted”,by a respectable accounting firm that does forensic audits all over the world. This small-time and not particularly bright criminal is about to get her day in Court.
The taxpayers are sick to death of FN blackmailing politicians who steal as much as they can get their hands on and constantly BLAME DE WHITE MAN!
It’s over,Theresa. As the saying goes, you can fool some of the people ALL the time,but this time even the wilfully blind MSM is on to your scam.
When you’ve lost the readers of that bastion of Liberalism,the CBC,you’ve lost the battle.
Now go eat some bannock and moose meat and prepare for your trial.
You forgot the 100% of the Indians that were molested at the residential schools but other than that you covered it.
Well, I’ve decided to start doing my accounting Indian style. So, 80% of my income will have been spent on “stuff connected to my practice”. No receipts (although most of my cash receipts seem to fade within a week) and I’ve sure that revenue Canada will have no difficulty accepting my simplified accounting method. After all, it’s how multi-million organizations do business in this country. If anyone objects, I’ll threaten to go on a hunger strike and accuse them of prejudice against minorities (being a white Ukrainian doctor I’m clearly a member of a minority group. Also, being born in Canada, I’m a native of the country).
Once I point out the precedent set in Attawapiskat, I’m sure that the tax department will leave me alone. If they don’t leave me alone, I’ll go on a hunger strike where I will limit myself to a diet of Cambozola cheese and champagne.
Somebody should pay for the remaining members of the Attawhatascam FN to fly down to Ottwhatscam for a few days of meetings with Chief HBB to be broadcast live on CPAC. Have them ask where have all the millions gone?
Meanwhile Warren Kinsella doubles down:
http://warrenkinsella.com/2013/01/in-tuesdays-sun-they-doth-protest-too-much/
In fact it is WK who doth protest too much. But he is too clueless to see that he is the one being exposed by his conduct.
The mind boggles at the lack of Federal Gov’t oversight over the past many years. How in Hell was this allowed to continue year over year?
I shudder to think what would have happened to ME had I played that fast and loose with my own financial dealings (Taxes) with Ottawa.
A comment above says the CBC is not on this. That’s not true, in fact the Attawapiskat audit has been their top story online all day. Credit where credit is due: they’ve been really fair and honest about the Idlers and how the govt and PMSH have handled it.
When the CBC calls you out for being a parasite on the taxpayer, you know you’re in trouble.
Solid gold comment from CBC. I would have considered it classic satire if not for the vague whining about the environment and corporations…
“There should be no need for us to be accountable for anything. We are sovereign Nations and canada has the fiduciary responsibility to look after us. Non-natives should turn their negative energies against the government in charge and hold them accountable for destroying the environment and selling out to the evil corporations that actually rule this country.”
Thank God for Ezra Levant and Sun News for exposing this outrage, when nobody else would.
If you can judge a man by his enemies, then Ezra Levant is the most hated man in Canada
A lot of people are getting rich off this never ending corruption, and they blew it big time expecting Canadians to see Theresa Spence as a martyr.
One comment on another website said that Chief Spence has two sons in jail for murder, but I can’t find any confirmation of this, not even a bio of this woman.
Anyone know?
Those who went to her hunger teepee, Justin Trudeau, Joe Clark, Paul Martin, Doc Fry, Doc Bennett sure lost credibility with the revelation. Of course we all know they were doing it to feed what they perceived their latest gotcha and to embarrass the PM. They failed, Spence should apologize and not another dollar should be passed over without being accounted for.
Through all this our Prime Minister looks solid, another reminder we are in good hands.
Sooke, I find this highly doubtful. In the first place, should such an alleged event have taken place the individuals would have faced a native Indian “sentencing circle” where such important factors such as the guilt of the white man in stealing their land and the crushing psychologic impact of not having an Escalade would have played an important role. I would also expect that members of the “sentencing circle” would be generously rewarded for their services in undocumented funds by the chief.
I look forward to seeing a mug shot of former chief Spence when she enters a federal penitentiary for the crimes she’s committed. Or maybe I should be saying alleged crimes as she likely didn’t have the benefit of going to a residential school to learn how to add and subtract and it’s hard to deal with millions of dollars when you’ve run out of fingers and toes to keep track of the money.
Wonder if bombastic showboater Charlie Angus has lost his voice over this? He certainly cannot defend this and retain any credibility at all. Guess he’ll let Curley/Paul Dewar flail in the wind on the subject.
Meanwhile, what they totally miss is how much of this anger is about the money not going to help “the people”. It’s not just that it’s unaccounted for, it’s that it’s not helping people. Don’t all these Idle types and white liberals care about this?
Someone should ask Paul Martin “where’s the cheque for that Adscam $100 million that was stolen by the Libranno regime.”
He said he’d cut a cheque, ok. Where is it?
Canadians have long memories when it comes to getting robbed.
The Idles have an opportunity to roll up their sleeves and head to Attawapiskat and help distribute goods that’s been wearhoused since the idle folks on the reserve haven’t got time to volunteer their services to even help themselves.
It would be interesting to know how they expect to sustain themselves with no employment in that place and no future for their children. It appears our tax dollars are flowing into a black hole.It also appears many Liberals like Paul Martin are OK with that, it’s the way they operated for years, the Indians squawk and they toss them some money.
Loki: “I look forward to seeing a mug shot of former chief Spence when she enters a federal penitentiary for the crimes she’s committed.”
Life in a penitentiary would be too lenient. Chief Spends should be sentenced to life on the Attawapiskat Reserve, no reprieves, no trips south, no Escalade, no perks at all. She should have to live in one of the substandard domiciles she’s sentenced the other members of her band to live in, on a fixed income, with no respite.
Her “leadership” is an unmitigated disaster, a scandal of epic proportions, but I fear she’s going to be only temporarily embarrassed by the exposure of her gross mismanagement of gazillion$ of taxpayer dollars and that life on the Attawapiskat Rez will return to “normal” by next month.
BTW, Merry Christmas, Loki!
If IdleNOMore focussed on the corruption within the Chief system then I think I could get behind it.
That being said there are some fantastic Chiefs out there. But I they are a minority. This is corruption and the Dept Of Indian Affairs or whatever it is called now is handcuffed in looking into it.
Chief Spence was the one who was saying they didnt need an audit in the first place and said they wanted to and were capable of running their own affairs. Now she claims the government should have been taking care of things. She is on both sides of the issue.
All the other dirty chiefs are going to abandon her because they get audited next.
The clean ones will want the audits and the changes.
Idle no More thought they could just be a lefty Harper protest and now they are goign to find that maybe the community they purport to represent wants changes that they arent apart of.
I think the government is playing this one correctly and is driving towards a proper solution. But it will take FN co-operation to get there.
And all the Libs who think they are helping the community by emoting and ignoring major problems in accountability, management etc of their “clients” are perpetuating the poverty. They need to think real hard and search their souls as to why they are supportiung the wrong side in this issue.
Gord, WK is now whining about the Sun not publishing his “double down”…enjoy.
Ezra must get tired of hauling out the hand puppets to school consensus journalists in how investigative reporting works.
“There should be no need for us to be accountable for anything. We are sovereign Nations and canada has the fiduciary responsibility to look after us. Non-natives should turn their negative energies against the government in charge and hold them accountable for destroying the environment and selling out to the evil corporations that actually rule this country.”
I wonder how many “sovereign” nations are wholly dependant on another nation’s government and their protected position within that nation for all of their income.
Palmateer, IS, from Liarson University remember.
Contradictions abound.
You cannot be both a sovereign nation, as the natives self-assert AND depend on ‘external’ funding of your sovereign nation.
The reality is, the natives don’t own the land. It’s over. They live on reserves by the grace of the government. The Harper government is trying to give them rights-of-ownership by enabling them to at least lease the land and move into a market economy. It’s that, or continued welfare dependency.
You cannot exist as a nation without an internal economy; that is, you must produce your own wealth.
Since the natives, by their own actions, refuse to follow their ancient economy of hunting and fishing, and want, instead, modern homes and technology, then they must enable their ‘sovereign nation’ to function with a wealth-producing economy to purchase those modern goods.
They refuse; they insist instead on being dependent on federal funding. This is psychologically and socially disastrous because it exists within an infantile existence of dependency.
You cannot accept public funding AND refuse to account, with documentation, for every penny of that money. Government is accountable to the taxpayer.
Note: Natives pay no tax on this money.
You cannot accept public funding and insist that your use of it be kept hidden.
Either live as you were 300 years ago or join the modern world. BUT, this means that you must engage in wealth production since the goods you want are not found in the forest.
By the way, the audit was completed last August and sent to Spence. She knew about it. She is fighing, I think, against any move by the government to enable the development of a private economy into the reserves. She and her cohorts would lose out in this.
Here is a comment from a poster on Chief Spend-a-lot and the NDP NP.
“Apparently they finally found FLIP FLOP Charlie stuck up Spense’s butt, he forgot to write his name on the bottom of his shoes”
“60K a year will buy a lot of beer.”
— Timbuk3
At least the mainstream media has stopped calling it a hunger strike. Now it’s just a liquid diet. Along with the fish broth, I suspect we also have other liquids involved given the continued presence of multiple chins.
For example:
Milkshakes, STeak and potato tea, Big Mac and cheesburger blender delights, etc…etc..
Idle No More is an attempt to take over the AFN by a coalition of the left. Palmater failed, dismally, to win leadership of the AFN so she is trying undermine the organisation and the democratically elected leadership to use this potentially powerful lobby group to undermine the Stephen Harper government and push a left wing agenda. The fuzzy demands and emotionalism speak to the frustrations of a group of people who really have no idea what they want, other than what the whiteman has, yet cling to an old identity. Where is Palmeter getting her funding?
There are solid, intelligent, well educated and caring people at the helm of the AFN and I am sure they recognise Idle No More for what it is. I trust they are strong enough to fend off this attack and continue representing the many Native Indians who have joined the Canadian economy and work for what they have in spite of their frustrations.
The release date on the audit is September 28th.
Who got copies then and why was’t it made public at that time.
The Chief and her boyfriend need a full forensic audit as well. Canada needs to know if any of the lost funds found their waty into their property holdings, bank accounts or other wealth sources.
Norm on January 8, 2013 11:34 AM |
That is what I am hearing too. The media may try to put a united face on the movement but it is in fact a schism. Many are correct in stating that these folks will never be satisfied and are not even trying to find common ground. My hope is that the govt will stand ready to extend a hand to those willing to work together and turn away from those who seek only to disrupt.
Right on Fred…
There are FN who do run competitive businesses from their reserves; and don’t descend into third world dictatorship fiefdoms like “Ate-a-whopper-scat”.
$500 million down the proverbial black hole and former PM Paul Martin is braying about Ms Spends Too Much being an ‘inspiration’.
Yep, and Adscam was an ‘inspiration’ as well; as long as you were on the receiving end of the un-receipted accounting mechanism.
I don’t care what color of skin you have, everybody can recognize an obvious financial ‘hustle’.
Next Paul Martin will tell us that the ridiculous gun registry was a great deal; where a mere 2 billion just disappeared off the books.
Chief Spends Too Much is merely attempting to feather her own personal nest at the expense of others on the reserve. Yeah, nice unaccountable deal if you can get it.
Props to Ezra for shining a little light on the financial dung heap that calls itself “Ate-a-whopper-scat.”
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
What about the $50 million Tony Clement misappropriated from border security to build gazebos in his riding? What about Bev Oda? Etc.
Leftists are just like kids, ‘Tommy, and everybody else, are doing that, why can’t I?’
What about lberia?
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In the old days ‘Chiefs’ were chiefs because they proved to be good leaders. And if they stopped being good leaders the people stopped paying any attention to them. They weren’t elected, they earned the right, and had to keep earning it.
Isn’t ‘democracy’ wonderful?
You cannot be both a sovereign nation, as the natives self-assert AND depend on ‘external’ funding of your sovereign nation.
Israel does…
The left-wing CBC is engaging in shoddy journalism by undermining Chief Spence. I therefore believe the CBC should be defunded of its billions.
Perhaps those within the community of “professional” “journalists” possessing the necessary analytical and mathematical skills could write a column containing a concise analysis of the problems of the FNs, and an estimate of the amount of money required to find resolution. I am assuming, of course, that the motivations of the “professional” “journalists” is to solve the problem to which they draw attention, rather than advancing their own position in the pecking order within their “profession” by demonstrating their individual powers to influence the average GTA voting age female.
Has anybody checked to find out if Charlie Angus is holding a seance at 787 Dundas St. W to conjure up the ghost of Jack for advice?
Ezra and Sun News have effectively interupted the normal MSM process. The standard MO of the CBC and their MSM cohorts is to blast anti-conservative messages like this Idle no-more protest.
Then when the facts come out (and you could say the facts were out, but ignored by the MSM), simply move on to the next big anti-conservative story.
However Ezra and Sun saw through this from the start, now the MSM is forced to report the mismanagement of Spence et al.
It may be a small victory for facts and truthful reporting, but it is a step in the right direction. Perhaps the MSM will reconsider their methods now that more and more people are on to their tactics.
Akin was just saying that a Glob al reporter was threatened with arrest at Attawapiskat. Reporters are also now being asked whether they are “friend or foe” at the Victoria Island weight-watchers camp. They have officially entered the end faze.
Once again CBC caught lying to taxpayers, what does it take to kill the zombie?
The beauty of the fawning coverage of Chief Fish Broth,I’m starvin here, by CTV and CBC is wonderful.
Blatantly defending and trying to hide the indefensible.
Now I can ask the Save CBC sucks, How low will you go?
Course when your own organization CBC wastes 1.2 billion tax dollars a year, why would some one wasting a mere 34 million/year even register?
Tax payers do not mind CBC (according to CBC) so whats Chief Moose stew= starvation’s, little mismanagement?
I used to feel sorry for Canadas first peoples. Thought they got a raw deal. After watching these types of hijinks, I just look at them as NDP or Liberals in feathers.
Tatunka!