Unfortunatly, much like gun violence in the states, while the answers are all kind of obvious, full financial disclosure, auditing, amalgamation of the bands into larger political units etc the answers do have to be accepted by the band members themselves, also, in truth Canada benefits from the corrupt banana republic nature of the bands as well, for all the occasional law suit mostly band leaders quietly sign over land rights without issue for a back hander from the province or mining company.
Having spent my life in Canada working with native kids and dealing with bands I am not hopeful anything will change.
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