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Old 09-08-2022, 11:50 AM   #330
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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee View Post
His answer was that he had a deal very close to being completed where Band councils across the country would agree to full transparency on all of their books in exchange for a large one time sum of money from the feds. Canadian government would be entitled to full audits of all spending on all reservations in Canada. He said they had agreed in principle and his government was working on details / getting to close the deal. He said that he believed by having this data and possibly making it public would enable the change on reservations across the country that was necessary as it would cause change from the inside (hence, we all know it is massively corrupt, maybe show the folks in such places just how corrupt).
This is what must happen and it's so obvious, but I don't believe it ever will. There is too much political capital to be gained in framing this idea as racist.
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