Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan, who announced the measures in question period Wednesday, told the House of Commons that "urgent health and safety issues" in the northern Ontario community needed immediate action. "The Government of Canada has informed the chief that we are placing the community in third-party management to ensure community needs are addressed," Duncan said. "Part of the manager's role will be to administer my department's funding which is normally managed by the First Nation directly."
Harper doesn’t bother to wait for the report he said he’s having done on how money has been spent. Hell no. These are natives. It’s pretty obvious to him they can’t manage their own affairs and the problems with underfunding spending must be due to their mismanagement. That’s why we needed those residential schools he was forced to inspired to apologize for.
And now he’s supposed to build them new schools? Look what happened last time. Ingrates!
Third party management. Guilty without an investigation. Must be their faullt ‘cause it sure as hell can’t be his, right? Forget that the AG said the quality of life on reservations is appalling and care is poorly managed by INAC.
Bad premise on which to begin rectifying the situation at Attawapiskat and other locations. This has simply become another excuse harper will use to cut funding (!!!) And take away what little autonomy First Nations still have.
Duncan and harper’s response to this crisis has been unconscionable. It will not change. It is how the CONs perceive anyone who isn’t them, and First Nations are below the bottom of his scale of who matters, who deserves basic human rights.
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Disgraceful doesn't even begin to describe Harper and Duncan's response to this disaster. Maybe Kanye West can come to Canada for a repeat performance of his Hurricane Katrina outburst, "Harper don't like First Nations people".
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