The Red Cross has gone into a northern reserve because the people are destitute? They have declared a "housing emergency". Whaaaaaaa??!!! Just watched this story on TV. I am dumbfounded. Where did this reserve's portion of the $8 billion Canadians give natives every year go? I have blogged about this national disgrace before, about how our natives are not accountable for a penny of the money they are given every year. You can't tell me that this reserve didn't get its money.
What I constantly wonder is why the natives don't ask their own leadership what they are doing with the money. Just read that Parliament has passed legislation forcing the chiefs to publically account for the money they get (or is is "hoard"). It's high time! There are between 20 and 30 (depending on your source) chiefs who make more than the Prime Minister -- that's up near $200,000. I mean, feature it!
Naturally, one chief's response was to accuse the federal government of being "colonialist" in asking for accountability. More PR at work here. Please.
But the Red Cross! Naturally, the blame will be slapped on the feds -- not where it should land.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Just heard that the feds recently poured $80 million into this reserve. No one seems to have a clue where it went -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
ReplyDeleteThat's crazy! Thanks for the blog.
ReplyDelete