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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I was thinking about this today. A few years back we had several high profile cases of corporate corruption, the Enrons, WorldComs, Comrad Black. companies that cooked the books, and there was an outraged call to get them the executives of these organizations arrested dragged through the courts and sentenced to long jail terms.
what they did book keeping wise and corruption wise and what Spence is doing aren't entirely different. Why aren't there more out cries from the media and the people and everyone else to hold Spence and her boyfriend to the same standards.
We chuckled at Rob Fords situation and a lot of media circuits and other groups openly cheered when the courts had him thrown out of office. Yet we're not hearing the same outcries for Spence.
I know I'm going to sound like a horrible person, but Spence isn't being held to the same standards because she's a Band Chief, and to me that's wrong.
If we're going to fix the system the first thing that has to happen is that we have to treat these situations the same way as we would treat a corporation, or a corrupt mayor or anything like that and not be blinded by the color of her skin or the people that she supposedly represents.
We're doing the Native's in Canada a huge disservice by not working harder to expose crap like this and seeing it dealt with like we would deal with everything else.
My 2 cents and two glasses of scotch talking.
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The main problem with the res system is it is based on an unchanged 2000 year old political structure, tribes, that everyone else dumped about 2000 years ago.
It is probably not legally possible due to treaty obligations but what we as Canada should do is refuse to deal with bands and force them to politically coalece either into a provincial structure or a nation structure (ie Cree or Coast Salish) so that the money goes to a larger group with access to more talent and greater internal oversight, if you have 200 or so bands being represented by a 'nation' you can bet they will be keeping an eye on how the money is spent better, natives are no different to the rest of us in this, you will always find the greatest level of corrupt incompetance at the municipal level and the idea that we would be able to find anyone able to competantly oversee 140 million or so out of a town of 2000 people, most of whom have little more than a grade 5 eduction is asinine.