{"id":1721,"date":"2020-01-22T01:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2020-01-22T01:26:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:26:03","slug":"this-is-true-and-will-make-your-blood-boil-one-reason-for-poverty-on-indian-reservations-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"This is true and will make your blood boil — One reason for poverty on Indian reservations in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is true and will make your blood boil\u00a0 — One reason for poverty on Indian reservations in Canad<\/span>a \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The chiefs get filthy rich while the people live in abstract poverty.\u00a0 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<\/p>\n

This is true and will make your blood boil<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember Tudeau removed the audit policy !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The city of Thompson, Manitoba with 13,446 residents pay their mayor, deputy<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>mayor and council members at total of $80,474.45 annually for taxable<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>salaries and per diems (the mayor’s annual indemnity is $29,745.45 per<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>annum, council members are paid $9,915.15 per annum and the deputy mayor<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>gets $11,068.40 per annum).<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fort McKay First Nation with a registered population of 827 (It\u2019s not a<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>typo, it\u2019s 827) paying their FN chief and band council members a total of<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>$2,067,098 in tax-free salaries and per diems, never mind $151,428 in travel<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>expenses ($2,499.51 per capita). Chief Jim Boucher was paid an annual<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>tax-free salary of $644,441 tax-free ($53,703 per month), AND tax-free<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>expenses of $35,359 ($2,947 per month), AND tax-free other remuneration<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>$25,000 ($2,083 per month) AND tax-free travel expenses of $60,157 ($5,013<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>per month)!!!!! Per month!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

\n

 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

No wonder there is poverty,\u00a0 poor housing, no health facilities;<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>the money can\u2019t seem to get past the chief and council !<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ccccold north winds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is true and will make your blood boil\u00a0 — One reason for poverty on Indian reservations in Canada \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1275,1274,1273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}