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This is true and will make your blood boil — One reason for poverty on Indian reservations in Canada

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This is true and will make your blood boil  — One reason for poverty on Indian reservations in Canada        

            This has been going on for decades. These people live like this because they allow it to happen to themselves by their own chiefs. The Gov’t of Canada is more that fair with the payouts.  The chiefs get filthy rich while the people live in abstract poverty.  When will it end , when the gov’t smartens up and gives the money directly to the individual families and not the chiefs and then no one can say any different if it doesn’t stop

This is true and will make your blood boil

Remember Tudeau removed the audit policy !

The city of Thompson, Manitoba with 13,446 residents pay their mayor, deputy
mayor and council members at total of $80,474.45 annually for taxable
salaries and per diems (the mayor’s annual indemnity is $29,745.45 per
annum, council members are paid $9,915.15 per annum and the deputy mayor
gets $11,068.40 per annum).

 

Brokenhead Ojibway Nation with a registered population of 1,918 paying their
FN chief and band council members a total of $415,357 in TAX-FREE salaries
AND per diems plus $1,557,766 in tobacco and fuel tax rebates.

 

Long Plains First Nation @ Portage La Prairie with a registered population
of 813 paying their FN chief and band council members a total of $539,918 in
tax-free salaries and per diems.

 

Little Grand Rapids First Nation with a registered population of 1,590
paying their FN chief and band council members a total of $706,182 in
tax-free salaries and per diems.

 

Buffalo Point First Nation with a registered population of 126 paying their
FN chief and band council members a total of $300,000 in tax-free salaries
and per diems.

 

Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation in Ontario with a registered on-reserve
population of 293 people paid their FN chief and band council $267,799 in
tax-free salaries never mind $58,930 in tax-free expenses.

 

Mathias Colomb First Nation with a registered population of 3,192 paying
their FN chief and band council members a total of $601,726 in tax-free
salaries and per diems.

 

Samson Cree First Nation with a registered population of 8,059 paying their
FN chief and band council members a total of $2,149,998 in tax-free salaries
and per diems ($266.78 per capita).

 

Fort McKay First Nation with a registered population of 827 (It’s not a
typo, it’s 827) paying their FN chief and band council members a total of
$2,067,098 in tax-free salaries and per diems, never mind $151,428 in travel
expenses ($2,499.51 per capita). Chief Jim Boucher was paid an annual
tax-free salary of $644,441 tax-free ($53,703 per month), AND tax-free
expenses of $35,359 ($2,947 per month), AND tax-free other remuneration
$25,000 ($2,083 per month) AND tax-free travel expenses of $60,157 ($5,013
per month)!!!!! Per month!!!

 

Enoch Cree First Nation with a registered population of 2,469 paying their
FN chief and band council members a total of $1,159,707 in tax-free salaries
and per diems never mind $84,030 in travel expenses ($503.74 per capita).
Also, Enoch Cree First Nation are also paying their Board of Directors
$1,511,457 in tax-free salaries and tax-free expenses.

 

No wonder there is poverty,  poor housing, no health facilities;
the money can’t seem to get past the chief and council !

 

 

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