Finally questioning their own

"The salaries should match the governance structure.  It doesn't make sense that politicians are paid more than $90,000 each to govern an on-reserve population of 7,000," said Harley Frank, a former Blood Tribe chief in response to revelations that the current chief and 12 councillors collectively paid themselves more than $2 million last year. 

Finally, the natives themselves are waking up to reality within their midst.  When you factor in travel claims, the total hits $2.13 million.  Chief Weasel Head's total remuneration and expenses were $133,130, while one councillor actually hauled in....wait for it....$210,982!

Just so outrageous.  "If you're getting paid that kind of money, I expect tremendous results," Frank said.  "And then you have people on that reserve living hand-to-mouth."  Yes folks, chiefs and councillors are raking it in, while their subjects live in shacks and defecate in buckets.  And whose fault is it.  Never mind, that was a rhetorical question.

No wonder they don't want their theft to be revealed in audits.  The Blood Tribe's biggest expense in fiscal 2015 was salaries and benefits, which clocked in at....wait for it again.....$45.96 million -- a figure that topped last year's by $669,850.  For governing 7,000 people?

Maybe now that natives know what their leaders are up to, they will start to demand reason, reality and accountability from these carney barkers.