The resolution calls for a fiscal relationship to be established directly with the Treasury Board and the Department of Finance, noting that Treasury Board allocations “should fulfill the legal obligations of the treaties, but do not.”
“The Treasury Board is kind of the key player in all of this,” said Mackinaw. “If we work with the Governor General and the Treasury Board we could have that one-on-one relationship like when treaty first was signed.”
Chiefs want the middle men cut out of funding relationships with Canada
Federal departments are using the monies allocated by Treasury Board as a “weapon against Indians and violating the Treaties.”
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