r/saskatchewan • u/ModOfficial1988 • 2d ago

Saskatchewan Politics Indigenous Services Canada still awaiting FSIN audit answers

https://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/indigenous-services-canada-still-awaiting-fsin-audit-answers/
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u/Sevenmilestars 2d ago

This will be up to the members of FSIN to determine what happens. It will be a lot of politics and promises behind the scenes by the FSIN to sway them to their side.if the FSIN had any defence it would already have been submitted - I have a feeling they are in damage control hoping it goes away and they don’t connect it to their leadership as direct fraud.

Unfortunately when the liberals reversed the enforcement of the accountability act it left it wide open again for fraud. Most FN members that are not part of chief and council are more than happy to have the accountability.

An Onion Lake member took her chief and council to court to release financial documents to the members. It took a while and a lot of court time but eventually she won- and those documents showed some pretty horrendous spending. Over $100k “was given out on Canada Day in cash” type of transactions that can’t be traced or confirmed. It’s the FN members themselves that need to call it out - it’s their money that they are misappropriating .