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Originally Posted by Northendzone
the part about reserves that has always bothered me is how some of the chiefs will take large salaries for themselves, and members of their families - while otehr members live in squalor. although i guess in some ways that is not very different than the CEO of a mjor O&G company making millions - or is it?
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No this is more like sending aid to the starving people of North Korea and Kim Jong Un uses it to buy Swiss watches and caviar for himself.
The reserve system has to change in how aid is granted and distributed to remove the element of corruption and to ensure responsible individuals are actually reinvesting into the community and economic development instead of graft. The problem is that the First Nations chiefs and councils who are used to having their coffers lined from this process will simply decry any effort as impugning their right to sovereignty, self-governance, and autonomy as a nation.