Finally

So, the chiefs and band council of Onion Lake Cree reserve have now been ordered by the court to open their books.  It's about time.  Charmaine Stick, a native activist and band member, partnered with the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation and took the recalcitrant bunch to court for consistently refusing to disclose their salaries, expenses and basic financial information.

Who the eff do they think they are with their "let them eat cake" attitude?  You can bet there have been considerable "irregularities" with the books of this band that straddles the Manitoba/Saskatchewan border.  Sadly, I know they will continue to fight this -- probably all the way to the Supreme Court.  Woe betide poor Ms. Stick if wacko Beverley McLachlin is still in charge because her rulings are a crap-shoot of all-over-the-map nonsense.  Her problem is she is a theoretician who has never run a chip stand so has no clue how the real world works. 

I'll be glad to see the backside of her out the door in the Fall, but with the hapless Trudeau in charge the sky's the limit on what bleeding heart he will appoint.  In the meantime, I hope that other bleeding heart Carolyn Bennett wakes up and smells the financially accountable coffee.

But as Neil Armstrong said, this ruling is "one small step for man."  Whether the giant leap for mankind will follow is anybody's guess.