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First Nations audit of Federal Government reveals billions in mismanaged funds
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OTTAWA - The Canadian Government has been mismanaging funds for over 140 years according to a damaging audit commissioned by the First Nations released this morning.
The audit, conducted by a private auditing firm, says the Canadian Government had difficulty maintaining satisfactory records, and cited numerous examples of questionable spending practices dating as far back as 1867, and ranging from money spent on school pencil sharpeners, WWI, the auto industry, prisons, unnecessary F-35 fighter jets, and, most recently, the high price tag for hiring Deloitte and Touche to audit First Nations spending practices.
According to a portion of the audit, “the practice of diverting funds to corporations and individuals” without properly accounting for them is a practice that “has plagued all branches of government across the country since its existence, from former and current city mayors, to MPs, to the very first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, who accepted bribes in return for federal investments.”
Even worse, the audit continued, “many top paid politicians are known to show up for work only half the time, yet there is no system in place to correct for this type of wasteful spending.”
The audit also revealed a questionable practice of distributing funds for housing, and highlighted many examples of political party leaders receiving big mansions while many across the country live in sub-par housing, or condemned homes, and many live on the streets with no housing at all.
“A housing scheme has been in place for many years which allots political leaders extravagant homes on big properties even though much of the population is barely able to afford the cost of renting tiny, poorly maintained, mouldy basement apartments,” the audit read in part. The Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive, the Leader of the Opposition’s Stornoway home, and the 50,000 sq. ft. mansion where the Governor General resides were some of the most glaring examples of unjust allotment of housing funds.
Yet the most damaging portion of the audit shows how public funds are often redirected into redundant projects, such as spending millions on trying to assimilate Aboriginal people, then spending billions on trying to reverse the work that had been done.
The release of the audit, which the First Nations say was not politically motivated, forced the Prime Minister to answer uncomfortable questions about spending in his community.
“At the end of the day, we cannot deny that we have been mismanaging public funds and resources rightfully belonging to First Nations for years,” said Mr. Harper. “Yet the best answer to these financial and human rights issues is to continue to allow things to get so bad that the voting public will eventually believe there is nothing that can be done save for doing nothing at all.”When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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Idle No More Edmonton AB May 23 2013
Petitioning Supreme Court of Canada
We the people ~ Kill Bill C45 Canada
- Petition by
Michael Dallaire
New York, Canada
Once pristine wilderness,
is now a world of poisoned water, polluted air, and rare cancer.
Secure the Protection of Enviroment ,
Restore the effect of strong environmental legislation
"Economics is an unnatural man made system & should serve the Environment not be above the environment."
For 140 years, the protection of navigation rights and the waters that enable it have been core to the federal role in environmental governance across Canada. TheNavigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) is one of Canada’s oldest federal environmental laws, enacted by Parliament in 1882. The NWPA built upon pre-existing common law navigation rights and the federal government’s exclusive jurisdiction over navigation and shipping pursuant to section 91(10) of the Constitution. Since that time, the NWPA has protected the rights of Canadians to navigate Canada’s waterways without interference from logging operations, bridges, pipelines, dams, and other forms of industrial development.
December 14, 2012's Bill C-45 overhauled the Navigable Waters Protection Act(NWPA) of 1882, renaming it the Navigation Protection Act (NPA). The NWPA had mandated an extensive approval and consultation process before construction of any kind could take place in or around any water which could in principle be navigated by any kind of floating craft. Under the new NPA, the approval process would only be required for development around one of a vastly circumscribed list of waterways set by the Minister of Transportation. Many of the newly deregulated waterways passed through traditional First Nations land.
While the NWPA had originally been intended to facilitate actual navigation, the ubiquity of waterways in the Canadian wilderness has given it the effect of strong environmental legislation by presenting a significant barrier to industrial development of any kind, especially to projects such as oil pipelines which crossed many rivers. The Harper government had by this time been engaged for some years in a struggle for approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project, a proposal to build an oil pipeline connecting the Athabasca oil sands with the Pacific Ocean, facilitating oil exports to East Asia
To:
Supreme Court of Canada, The Right Honourable Chief Justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
Incumbent Christy Clark, Premier of British Columbia
To the Hon. Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment,
We the people ~ Kill Bill C 45 with a referendum
"Economics is an unnatural man made system & should serve the Environment not be above the environment."
Restore the effect of strong environmental legislation by REMOVING BILL C-45 Canadians had a right to be consulted and the conservative government was Negligent, with its misrepresentation of politics by the methods of Omnibus Bills...
The government failed to honour its constitutionally mandated duty under section 35 of the Constitution Act to consult with First Nations peoples, the Métis and the Inuit when it negotiated the FIPPA with China and passed the Omnibus bills 45 & 38.
This means that under our constitution, the FIPPA and the Omnibus Bills are invalid.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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