Want to know where it boils out of?...INAC....Indian & Northern Affairs allows this type of corruption to exist. Where is the accountability in that?  I am a member of an Interlake Band (Pinaymootang First Nation). Our Interlake Reserves Tribal Council (IRTC) is an invisible organization; to me I look at it as 'organized crime'. When you approach the tribal council of enquiries, they tell you to go and ask your chief. This is not good governance, as the chief will not release any information. This organization is a flow through for INAC funding and does not benefit any IRTC community. Only the Chiefs and their families benefit from this organization. Can you imagine how many tax dollars line the Chief's pockets. This organization also has shares from the Tribal Council Investment Group; how much funding does IRTC recieved from TCIG annually? Only the Chiefs know. Our band members cannot access Economic Development Dollars from IRTC. When you approach INAC to access this information, they tell you to ask your chief. This is a dead-end road. I am sure that IRTC band members would like to know how much tax dollars are being spent combining band funds and IRTC funds on their Chiefs. How much is each Chief receiving annually from both these organizations combined?

Sorry, approximately 1300 on reserve.

The Chief and council (elected by band members) should be there for the community and the 535 on reserve and are they?  Or are they laughing all the way to the bank?  They do not deserve to be there, it should be equal pay for equal work. Time to elect a new chief and council. How can someone honestly be worth paying themselves over One Hundred THousand dollars meanwhile children, youth, teens, elders are suffering. There's NO programs for them and yet this reserve receives so much funding to help there band members. The welfare system is so crooked, people are recieving welfare meanwhile they should be out finding work or the band should get these people trained and put them to work so they can have better lives for themselves and thier families. This would better the community overall. I hope it would anyway.

As for the previous comment that Chief, you can find him sitting in front of the local VLT machines 24 7, thats the truth, ask any band member on reserve. How about having band membership meetings that are constantly requested and has never happened in years.

INAC should enforce rules, policies and procedures for band elections, this process is so crooked its shameful.

INAC should also enforce a condition that there should be a minimum education level for chiefs and councillors so at least they can understand a simply budget and would not have Auditors making comments as such.

Time for Changes....come on government help them out for a change...instead of turning away. Band members are desperate and shouting as loud as they can,  will you hear them?

I'm sorry. A salary of 105,000 ?. MLA's live off reserve, and have independent resources from previous employment. Chiefs often do not. Also consider the difference in culture. The Chief will 'spread the wealth' such as it is, whereas MLA's consider their salaries their own. (Of course!) The reservation we lived on was fly in. Any 'meeting' involved someone flying in, or flying out. Technology was difficult to maintain. Goods came in on the winter road (on ice).

$105,000? Check what the teachers on reserves make. They get isolation pay, travel bonus, signing bonus... because otherwise they wouldnt go!

$105,000? The Chiefs are 'on duty' and on the spot, easily accessible and easy to find, 24/7. Know any MLA's like that? They have life and death crises daily. Know any MLA's with that much contact with responsibility? 

$105,000? I would hope so!

Want to work on something, work on the money wasted on reserves because money sent for (for example) education has strings attached requiring the hiring of 'recommended' consusltants... hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultant fees that the same guys collect for handing in the same 'reports' on multitude reserves...former fed employees and friends.

Find a way to get some work going up there... the $20,000 'salary' is welfare- NOT salary. And training programs to train for work not available (nothing is there) is a waste of money, except to provide work... that sort of thing already happens plenty!

Reading a report and getting het up about it takes no intelligence. Finding solutions to real problems may be beyond possibility in the current set up. Now there's something to write about.