He can't produce them because they probably don't exist. If you keep accurate records that means people could be held accountable for the fraud and theft.
You can survive on a fluid diet for weeks if not months. You won't be doing any jigs or manual labour but you will be alive.Chief Spence wanted to throw the spotlight on third world conditions that some natives have to live under so that she can get more money to squander. What she did was to throw the spotlight on herself and the lack of accountability of the money that she has received. Her actions will bring better living conditions to the average native, only because now all the money given will have to be accounted for.
Now if she can share the secret to her secret life sustaining fish broth , we can feed a lot of hungry natives as well the starving around the world.
You can survive on a fluid diet for weeks if not months. You won't be doing any jigs or manual labour but you will be alive.
Don't think so much, you sound silly when you do.After a month of only fish broth, I think she would have lost her chins.
Chief Spence wanted to throw the spotlight on third world conditions that some natives have to live under so that she can get more money to squander. What she did was to throw the spotlight on herself and the lack of accountability of the money that she has received. Her actions will bring better living conditions to the average native, only because now all the money given will have to be accounted for....
It is a puzzler and I've heard few people with near the right answer. The best explanation I've heard was that it 'was' an over reaction, rightly or wrongly, based on a long history of pushing back hard when attacked by outsiders.I found it quite telling that she had an open door for reporters until the audit story broke then she kicked them off the reserve.
She was welcoming the outsiders until the audit report broke. Fact.It is a puzzler and I've heard few people with near the right answer. The best explanation I've heard was that it 'was' an over reaction, rightly or wrongly, based on a long history of pushing back hard when attacked by outsiders.
I'm not saying otherwise.She was welcoming the outsiders until the audit report broke. Fact.
Where are the documents that you alluded to in trying to make your argument?I'm not saying otherwise.
yup... can't expect much leadership, efficient management or accountability from these people. I mean.. they don't want to take up a 9-5 job, but want a free ride, skip taxes, enjoy time in the wild, smoke, drink, get high on gasoline xD Most couldn't even pass highschool math, let alone keep track of where funds go.Part of the problem is poor leadership and poor management, but what the hell does anybody expect?
Attiwapiskat First Nation is in the middle of nowhere, a poor community with an inferior education system and a whopping 1900 people living there. Out of these 1900 people they've picked this Spence to be their leader, but she pretty much by definition a small time backwater leader. She does not have the skills or ability--never mind the training or the education--to do the job that she's been given. Graft and corruption flow not just from some lack of morals, but from the fact that you are pushing massive amounts of money into the hands of people who are completely unprepared to deal with it.
Surprise surprise, they didn't keep proper records. Well has anyone ever shown them how to do that? What's the level of training of their best accountant? Do they even have an accountant? How many of them in that community actually graduated highschool?
I am sure Spence would make a great class President and would do a wonderful job of planning a graduation ceremony. Beyond that, she is over her head, and it is not her fault that she is over her head. Anybody who expected Attawapiskat or any other similarly small First Nation to run a professional accounting operation is just ludicrously dreaming. Anyone expected a backwater of 1900 people to produce a leader who could act competently and effectively with a clear message on a national stage--is dreaming. There was never even the slightest chance that they would be able to manage their accounts in a way that a financial auditor from a big 3 accounting firm would find acceptable.
Now she is under massive nation wide media spotlight with reams of columnists analyzing her every word. Is she prepared for that? Hell no. She's cracking under the pressure, flip flopping, completely unsure of what to do next and just not coping at all with the job she needs to do--she is acting like a deer caught in the headlights, and if any of you were honest--probably so would most of you, if you were now in her shoes. What did anyone expect? Does anyone think this is going to end well?
The whole approach to these issues needs to be reformed. We should throw the entire system out, and start over from first principles. These people DO deserve better than they're getting, but it isn't going to be an incremental reform of the system we have today that delivers it. Handing Spence a few more million dollars will accomplish nothing, ditto all the other similarly screwed communities. Blaming her and saying it's all their fault is also stupid--it's an unrealistic expectation.
I think your post is just bigotry. Again, I think when you have a community in the middle of nowhere, with 1900 people, most of whom lack an education--when you think you can hand them millions of dollars and expect them to manage that properly, YOU are the problem. Only an idiot would do that.yup... can't expect much leadership, efficient management or accountability from these people. I mean.. they don't want to take up a 9-5 job, but want a free ride, skip taxes, enjoy time in the wild, smoke, drink, get high on gasoline xD Most couldn't even pass highschool math, let alone keep track of where funds go.
I had to laugh earlier while watching new and they started mentioning Chief Spence willing to sacrifice her life and die for her cause.. Sacrifice and die from fasting? hahahah that is probably the last and farthest thing on her mind. A maniuplative, spoilt kid who thinks she can get what she wants by fooling people she would die for her cause and acting like a little kid is what she is.
Well, at least one of them.After a month of only fish broth, I think she would have lost her chins.
After being on a so called hunger strike for over a month I cannot see any weight loss at all on spence. she is still fat as ever.
she is the biggest fraud in more ways than one, and has become a joke.
lol no canadian politician wants to open up that can of worms, youre so full of shit. Imagine what the left would do if reserves were shut down or some type of welfare to work program was initiated? the aboriginals know they can get away with murder bc no politician wants to fuck with them. Aboriginals have the power to disrupt the economy by blocking rail lines or doing things like refusing to allow a mine to be built. If harper had balls he;d have her arrested but he;s just like all the other politicians, chief spence included. He wants to stay in power and enjoy all the perksIt's a condition outlined and agreed upon in the 80 page Indian act, and to a lesser degree other treaties, written many years ago. Yes, it's time to revise it and have it join the 21st century, but Ottawa, presently run by Harper, who is afraid to open that basket of snakes on his watch, won't do it with being forced to.
Aboriginals Chiefs aren't children nor are they stupid. There may be a massive cultural gap but this is corruption not stupidity at work. They may not be Wall street masters but many reserves are properly run and managed. Spence is calculating and manipulative. She started all this knowing damn well it was going to hit the fan.I think your post is just bigotry. Again, I think when you have a community in the middle of nowhere, with 1900 people, most of whom lack an education--when you think you can hand them millions of dollars and expect them to manage that properly, YOU are the problem. Only an idiot would do that.
What we need is some larger scale governance for native communities, bringing together enough people that there's a credible base to draw leadership and experience from. We should not expect competent governance from communities of less than, say, 30000 people. A 30000 person community can get together the resources to do proper accounting and budgeting, combine services to some reasonable level of efficiency, and draw on a voter base large enough to come up with some semi-credible leaders.
It's just not realistic to expect a backwater community of 1900 people to manage what we are expecting them to manage. That's our fault.