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"As far as I know this was the first AUDIT ever done on the books!"
Actually, "audits" are conducted yearly by the Timmins accounting firm Rose, Pope and Company.
In their CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for 2009 and 2010 they state:
" The accompanying consolidated financial statements of Attawapiskat First Nation and all the information
in this Annual Report are the responsibility of Management and have been approved by the Band Council.
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared by Management in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles for First Nations. The consolidated financial statements include some amounts that are based on estimates and judgments. Management has determined such amounts on a reasonable basis in order to ensure that the consolidated financial statements are presented fairly, in
all material respects. Financial information used elsewhere in the Annual Report is consistent with that in the consolidated financial statements.
Attawapiskat First Nation's policy is to maintain systems of internal accounting and administrative controls of high quality, consistent with reasonable cost. Such systems are designed to provide reasonable assurance that the financial information is relevant, accurate and reliable and that the Band's assets are appropriately accounted for and adequately safeguarded...."
Clearly those annual audits, based on samples, had nothing to do with the quality of work of Kennedy or anyone else.
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Background
The Attawapiskat First Nation is an Indian Band located in the James Bay Region of Northern Ontario and forms part of the Mushkegowuk Tribal Council. According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada's ("AANDC") community profile for the Attawapiskat First Nation, the community has 316 housing units, of which 46 (14.6%) are considered adequate, 148 (46.8%) require major renovations, and 122 (38.6%) require replacement. The Attawapiskat First Nation receives annual funding from the Government of Canada for various purposes, including housing, health, education and other similar services.
The Attawapiskat First Nation was placed under co-management – a form of intervention employed by the Department with the goal of improving the financial situation of a recipient – by AANDC over ten years ago. On November 30, 2011, urgent housing health and safety issues in the community requiring immediate action were identified and resulted in AANDC appointing a Third Party Manager until such time as the community's immediate needs would be addressed. On April 19, 2012, based on the progress made in remediating urgent housing-related health and safety issues, AANDC determined that the default situation was remedied and removed the First Nation from third party management.
Subsequent to this decision, the Chief Audit and Evaluation Executive of AANDC requested that Deloitte perform an internal audit to provide assurance to the Deputy Minister and the Minister of AANDC that the management control framework in place at AANDC assures compliance with Treasury Board and departmental policies and directives governing transfer payments, monitoring and oversight, and reporting is functioning as intended
In addition to the above, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada requested that Deloitte undertake specified auditing procedures with regards to expenditures claimed by the Attawapiskat First Nation for the period from April 1, 2005 to November 30, 2011. This report summarizes the specified auditing procedures performed and the results on the application of these procedures.
http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1350245005475/1350245248670
"The conditions that many aboriginals live in is a “national shame,”"
Mr Duncan is correct
"a critical audit of the Attawapiskat should be dismissed as a needless distraction from that issue"
Mr Duncan is wrong.
I see the ‘group’ have been busy beavers this morning.
The audits were done by the Dept of Indian Affairs and they were approved. It was mentioned in one of the several videos I posted by Dr Palmater. Every year the books of all Reservations are gone over by the Dept. I would go and look for it but it is obvious that no matter what you show some people, it’s never enough…..so I’m not wasting my time.
I was watching a video clip of anti-racism by Jane Elliott. She is renowned for the work she does and has for some 40 years. The video clip is her visit to Canada and dealing with white racists and bigotry towards Native people…some who have no idea that they even are racist. The bottom line is when she says “if you haven’t learned from what this man says (referring to a Native man) then you have decided not to learn or you think you know enough”. That is what I and others face in this world on a regular basis…..people who just do not want to learn.
What we really face in Canada now and have for a long time are people who feel the First Nations people should not get what they get, be it taxpayers money or their Reservations or exclusion for paying some taxes etc etc etc. The mindset of some Canadians is pure selfish greed and boils down to …’why should they get this and that and I don’t’. They’re like a little kid who wants his parents to buy him a new bike because Johnny down the road got a new one.
Try to grasp this one more time……..Canada is Native land….it was taken from them by your forefathers or someone else’s forefathers. You are using that land and prospering off it either directly or indirectly. Add to that a long list of abuses inflicted on the Native people that not only got Canadian government approval…but the people then and many people now….could care less about. The people of Canada are paying for the crimes of the past against Native people and paying for the treaties made in the past and paying for the use of the land. Take the responsibility and deal with.
Spence is being used as a scapegoat for the racists and bigots in Canada to avoid looking at the real problems……….. C-45 does not honour the treaties and it drastically eliminates protection of many lakes and rivers. C-45 violates the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples because it does not honour the treaties or indigenous sovereignty and because the federal government did not consult with First Nations before instituting the legislation which he tried to sneak through. Since 2008, the Harper government has cut aboriginal health funding, gutted environmental review processes, ignored the more than 600 missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada, withheld residential school documents from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, abandoned land claim negotiations, and tried to defend its underfunding of First Nations schools and child welfare agencies.
As the Chiefs of Manitoba said the other day they are going to tell Harper’s government what they want and that’s it…..period. They are done with the game playing and the faux negotiations. Not only did they have problems with past governments but now the ‘Harper government’ has brought in a whole new underhanded bag of tricks to take more from the Native people…….and they have had Enough! They are done with the lies and the manipulations of the government. And…if necessary they will shut Canada’s economy down.
‘’Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution’’ inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Shouldn’t the RCMP do so first?
Sure, go for it. PLEASE!
Then maybe we can get back to the real problems instead of all this hypothetical diversion.
How do they attract attention? Well a long time ago it was go after the Black people and Native people....then it was go after the Muslim people...now it's go after the Native people again. And who does on this? Give that some thought.
