…more than $4-million received by the [First Nations Health Authority] since 2007 could not be accounted for at all, says the Health Canada review.
…more than $4-million received by the [First Nations Health Authority] since 2007 could not be accounted for at all, says the Health Canada review.
Drums and chant writers?
I am guessing $1,000 a day per diems to elders to burn sweet grass and sing the hi ya ya ya song. This while the Indians at the bottom of the totem pole continue suffer in poverty; not due to lack of government funding but due to the systemic misappropriation of funds to what Ezra correctly identified as the Indian industry one per centers.
They spent it trying to get the Whale Chief on a diet?
The money has to come from somewhere to buy the TV’s to give away at election time.
When we discuss BC native affairs we have to realize we are dealing with an entirely different situation there. The many bands and tribes in BC have never signed any treaty with the crown (to my knowledge) and thus never surrendered their sovereignty. Any attempt by the government to force them to comply with Canadian law or regulation is therefore an belligerent act against another nation’s sovereignty.It seems the solution the politicos have chosen is endless tribute payments to keep native claims at bay. I read somewhere that because there was never any treaty signed that the various BC tribes have laid claim to 110% of BC land mass.
This is the main reason why I would never buy land in BC because virtually every deed is encumbered with unresolved implicit claim. I really have no faith in any level of government to confront the aggressive, rapacious and unreasoning players of the BC native sovereignty movement in that province – so as it stands now every non native living there pays some form of “tribute” to FN (in the form of taxation) for the privilege of living on Native land with the uncertainty that they could be disowned of their realty holdings at any time by native claims upheld by the courts.
This situation has festered for over 100 years with politicians avoiding a final resolution – either make a final one time payment and land grant to natives to surrender all claims in perpetuity or make war and retrieve the land by right of conquest. Obviously the first option is the most reasoning, moral and humanitarian solution, but the longer it is avoided the more it will cost. If there is trouble in the BC native affairs situation it is mostly the fault of gutless, visionless politicians.
Any attempt by the government to force them to comply with Canadian law or regulation is therefore an belligerent act against another nation’s sovereignty.
They’ll get the land back eventually, they just won’t get it back yet. In the meantime, they’re living pretty good by world standards.
“You’ve got a service model that will change over time,” he said. Under the present system, services are not delivered “effectively and consistently at a high standard to First Nations…. I’m proud of the work we’re doing. We’re leading the way.”
We’ll see. IF the FNHA have hired the right people to administer the program,and that is people of any ethnic background with the required expertise to do the job, everything will work out just peachy.
But,if the administration is mostly comprised of political appointees,as is usually done on Reserves, it will be another fiasco. Persons without the proper management education simply can’t run a half-billion dollar a year organization that has 60,000 clients scattered throughout 203 Reserves, not to mention another 60,700 off-Rez Native clients.
So, we’ll see. Maybe the FN’s have seen the light and will hire the management professionals they need to provide the expertise they’re going to need.Only an audit done every year by an outside firm such as Deloitte-Touche will tell the tale.
Occam, about ten years back,the Nisga’a FN up North of Prince Rupert signed the first BC land claim settlement.The ceremony in all it’s colorful pageantry was covered in full by the MSM,and that FN became an actual Nation.
Since then,there has been a News blackout rivalled only by that of the blackout on South Africa. We haven’t heard a word about how successful the entire experiment has been. Guess we’ll just have to keep our fingers crossed.
dmorris, I can answer that. The Sto:lo hire only qualified folks with no regard to race. I have witnessed this first-hand and do business with them myself. The Sto:lo are a model for competency and integrity in all that they do. But like any large bureaucracy there is malfeasance and they deal with it directly and effectively. I know of other BC bands that work the same way but will only address what I know personally but I do hear good things about the Nisga’a Lisims Government.
Hi.
I heard that serial screwer with AIDS – you remember the guy whose girlfriends died – was released on parole last month, and he made a bee-line for U of T.
I’m sure someone got him on their i-phone camera.
Keep on boinkin’!
Makes me sick the lack of accountability via native leaders spending OUR money.
Occam, the BC tribes never had “Rights” in the form of treaties
Several books have been written about the missing English legal status of the BC Tribes. NO TREATIES REQUIRED. The NDP & thier sick Judges created some quasi-treaties, but nothing in stone..
If Canadian Indians are claiming to be Sovereign; all treaties are dead.
What democratic Government spends taxpayer’s money on the citizens of a sovereign nation?
No. Really?
GOOD! Thanks TN,I’m very happy to hear that! I worked with a family from New Aiyansh,and they were going back to the Rez after 15 years away,with some trepidation.
See,Chief Spence, it CAN be done honestly, if you just give a damn about your people.
What happened to the $50 million that Tony Clement misappropriated?
So is this ORNG, native-style?