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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Um they're paying the band manager $850 a day tax free plus expenses which apparently aren't supported by documentation and they can't afford to bring somebody in by offering equivalent money? I call bull.
I remember when this whole thing blew up that the CBC confronted Spence with a receipt for a private jet rental at a stupid amount of money that was booked to take her family to Toronto for what basically accounted for a shopping trip and Spence lost her mind, I wonder if those supporting documents made its way into the books?
Even if we just looked at the $90 million the governement gave them and the $35 million provided directly by Deboers for 1600 people thats $78,135 per person spent by a band government over the past what 5 years or about $15625.00 per person per year. If that was translated to a city like Calgary of a million people that would mean that the budget for this city would be something like $16 billion dollars a year in spending. I think our spending budget in the city is far less then that.
And the city of Calgary is far more complex then that little reservation. While we don't provide housing for every person in the city. The reserve doesn't supply anywhere near the infrasturcture that Calgary provides.
If the city of Calgary had the spending budget per person that Spence had then every person in Calgary would be receiving limo service to and from work basically.
And I'm not even adding in other revenue from other sources, just the government stuff and Deboers money.
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Well aside from the other issues with the numbers, we also don't provide housing for every resident, so we should have a smaller budget!