If your reserve was sitting on substantial oil and gas deposits you’d have to have pretty lousy management to lose track of $120 million, but accountability is probably an outdated artifact of the colonial mindset anyway.
Public financial reports for Frog Lake First Nation show the band is short $120 million in net assets over a five-year time period between 2013 and 2018.
The records show the band-owned business called Frog Lake Energy Resources has been losing millions of dollars since 2015.
APTN reached out the current Chief Greg Desjarlais and initially agreed to an interview but later cancelled.
In a virtual meeting with community members he says that an audit is unnecessary.
How many trips to Las Vegas, by the chief and friends?
No it was spent on large screen TVs, pickups and SUVs.
Something else to blame on the residential schools: no math or accounting skills.
How large is his vehicle and house?
one of the first things that blackiemcblackface did, cancel the accountability act from Harper
Got that right
Yep, the corruption of the Liberals was on full display the day they tossed the accountability act by Harper.
Everybody who has ever lived on a Rez or known people who do, knew exactly what would happen; outright theft of Band funds by FN governments.
Most Rez’s are run like banana republics with the Chief and his family in charge of everything, skimming off as much as they can. The LPC is okay with this as long an they get the FN vote.
And the sad part is … all the FN’s peoples KNOW IT … and yet they’re so brainwashed with “paleface baaaaad MmmmKay?” … that they refuse to acknowledge their REAL problem is from within
Yea….that was IMO, Well Beyond a Criminal Act.
But, well in keeping with his mandate from Klaus to utterly Destroy this Country no..??
Thats a lot of zamboni’s
That’s a lot of F350s, skidoos and takeout.
KFC, must taste like the old bizon. ever been in a KFC in western canada where there arent indians?
Bags and bags of all-dressed chips
Exactly what the Transparency Act was enacted to deal with.
Big Chief Running Weasel.
The Accountability Act wasn’t accepted by all of the 600+ ‘nations’ but many saw the value in having the books examined. The program was increasing in popularity until the Bong abruptly cancelled it. Corruption is widespread on the rez. Stealing is almost de riguere. It’s rare that anyone is held accountable.
The people that could use some help rarely get it. If your not part of the band council or the Indian Mafia your out of luck.
Well, I hope no one decided to try their hand at crypto back then. 2017 in particular would not have been a good time.
I remember reading an article about different indigenous nations dabbling in crypto. The Lakota even developed their own version of bitcoin. Not good.
Simple tribal politics. Whitey wouldn’t understand. The Indian Act needs to be thrown out and native communities reorganized along the lines of proper civics.
How utterly colonial and white of you. There. I killed the conversation
There’s an old saying: “The chief’s driveway is always paved”. Unfortunately, El Turdeau caved to the chiefs ad cancelled the accountability provisions PM Harper had wisely (and with – I suspect – the support of the majority of band members across Canada) had legislated so ordinary band members could find out who got what.
And pockets well lined.
Many Indian reserves operate much like small Marxist enclaves. The top dogs take it all, keep enough of the tribe happy enough to vote for them and then dump on the rest….put them in abject poverty. It is that abject poverty that the media jumps on and pretends it is everybody’s fault except for the Chief and Council. It is absolutely disgusting that all Indian bands aren’t audited ANNUALLY with the results provide publicly and especially to tribe members. It is a cesspool of corruption. A cottage industry.
Seems our own “chiefs” have “misplaced” a lot of tax dollars too. Green slush fund, adscam, arrivecan app etc etc etc etc. The amount of waste and fraud from our own paleface politicians makes the rez look like amateur hour. Everything said about the rez applies to us too
Whenever you put trust in a politician of any stripe to look after large amounts of someone else’s money they will do what comes naturally, and we’ll dutifully pay for it. You can take that to the bank. Ha
Yep … government THEFT is a real thing … because everyone shrugs and just moves on with their lives. WE make it possible for the thieves to thrive.
The article mentions this: “From 2017-2018, his salary was $104,000, plus $151,000 in travel, and $61,000 from FLER bringing his salary to over $300,000.”
That’s amazing. Even more amazing, that salary is TAX FREE.
I can hear them (the ANC) snickering, snickering in South Africa.
(Sang to the tune of Crying In Soweto)