Just as long as the resources/funding does NOT go to individual chiefs in the region. Those f*ckers are more corrupt than a Louisiana po-lice officer.

/more crooked than a dog's hind leg?
//more shady than a 100 yr old oak tree?
///whatever

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gopher321

I immediately thought of Louisiana when I read this part:

In 2007, a paper commissioned by the federal government advised against transferring control over lands and resources to the government of Nunavut, concluding that the territorial administration didn't have the staff or the skills to do the job.
Aariak said Tuesday those concerns are no longer relevant.

The government of Nunavut is razor-sharp to a man. They will have full provincial status within 20 years, mark my words.

gopher321: Just as long as the resources/funding does NOT go to individual chiefs in the region. Those f*ckers are more corrupt than a Louisiana po-lice officer.

/more crooked than a dog's hind leg?
//more shady than a 100 yr old oak tree?
///whatever

so crooked they screw their socks on in the mornings.

FTFA:

''However, that money is expected to be used to benefit Inuit, not to pay for programs and infrastructure for the territory as a whole.''

benefit Inuit? One Inuit? Yeah, what we thought...

Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Mantour: Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Is that the reservation that was in the news last fall that had been recieving something like $60,000/resident/year for like 10 years and everyone lived in cardboard boxes and no one really knew where the money went?

Muta: Mantour: Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Is that the reservation that was in the news last fall that had been recieving something like $60,000/resident/year for like 10 years and everyone lived in cardboard boxes and no one really knew where the money went?

Yes

ZAZ: gopher321

I immediately thought of Louisiana when I read this part:In 2007, a paper commissioned by the federal government advised against transferring control over lands and resources to the government of Nunavut, concluding that the territorial administration didn't have the staff or the skills to do the job.
Aariak said Tuesday those concerns are no longer relevant.

Hah, no longer relevant my ass.

Mantour: Muta: Mantour: Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Is that the reservation that was in the news last fall that had been recieving something like $60,000/resident/year for like 10 years and everyone lived in cardboard boxes and no one really knew where the money went?

Yes

Yeah...I don't think they ever figured out just how they spent all of that money. I remember they said they were spending 80% of it on education but didn't have an operational school.

What the hell is going on in this thread.

change1211: ZAZ: gopher321

I immediately thought of Louisiana when I read this part:In 2007, a paper commissioned by the federal government advised against transferring control over lands and resources to the government of Nunavut, concluding that the territorial administration didn't have the staff or the skills to do the job.
Aariak said Tuesday those concerns are no longer relevant.

Hah, no longer relevant my ass.

Mantour: Muta: Mantour: Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Is that the reservation that was in the news last fall that had been recieving something like $60,000/resident/year for like 10 years and everyone lived in cardboard boxes and no one really knew where the money went?

Yes

Yeah...I don't think they ever figured out just how they spent all of that money. I remember they said they were spending 80% of it on education but didn't have an operational school.

The ''Education'' expenses were for a daughter of the Chief that attended UofT and wanted a trip back home once a month, paid for by the band's budget

Mantour: change1211: ZAZ: gopher321

I immediately thought of Louisiana when I read this part:In 2007, a paper commissioned by the federal government advised against transferring control over lands and resources to the government of Nunavut, concluding that the territorial administration didn't have the staff or the skills to do the job.
Aariak said Tuesday those concerns are no longer relevant.

Hah, no longer relevant my ass.

Mantour: Muta: Mantour: Attawapiskat Reservation, Anyone?

Is that the reservation that was in the news last fall that had been recieving something like $60,000/resident/year for like 10 years and everyone lived in cardboard boxes and no one really knew where the money went?

Yes

Yeah...I don't think they ever figured out just how they spent all of that money. I remember they said they were spending 80% of it on education but didn't have an operational school.

The ''Education'' expenses were for a daughter of the Chief that attended UofT and wanted a trip back home once a month, paid for by the band's budget

Did that also cover the helicopters the band chartered to ferry hunters to and from their hunting grounds?

Seriously? I once called the Nunavut securities regulator, and they had a voice mail that said something like "Hello, it is August 20th and we are out of the office." This would have been fine, except it was February.

Lumpmoose: [interesting]?

Nunavut potentially being offered and accepting the same basic natural resource control agreement already accepted by the Yukon and NWT?

14 comments so far?

Apparently not.

/The 400 student protesters getting arrested in Montreal thing was a more interesting story IMHO.

quatchi: Lumpmoose: [interesting]?

Nunavut potentially being offered and accepting the same basic natural resource control agreement already accepted by the Yukon and NWT?

14 comments so far?

Apparently not.

/The 400 student protesters getting arrested in Montreal thing was a more interesting story IMHO.

I heard it was 518. I haven't seen anything about it on Fark though.

gopher321: Just as long as the resources/funding does NOT go to individual chiefs in the region. Those f*ckers are more corrupt than a Louisiana po-lice officer.

/more crooked than a dog's hind leg?
//more shady than a 100 yr old oak tree?
///whatever

Anyone who says Indians (or Inuit) politicians are more corrupt than Canadian politicians is a moron. Having said that, the Indian Act system, which was created and is maintained by Canadians, does not have the same checks and balances that Canadians have given themselves in the mainstream system.

Nobody mentions the waste that occurs in the department of Aboriginal Affairs (run by Canadians) which has over 4000+ employees... but the department has a communication startegy that says it basically just gives the money to the chiefs... why would you need 4000+ employees to be a funnel?

The real situation is that under the Indian Act system the democracy (and the checks and balance that goes with a working democracy) only goes up to the mayoral level, with the Indians premier being a hired bureaucrat and their Prime Minister being an appointee.