Attawapiskat First Nation
"On this matter, the interests of the people in the community are directly affected and must take precedence over the arguments between the Chief/Council and the Minister. There is real harm to the affected people and to the community at large if the 'window of opportunity' is missed due to legal wrangling", ruled Judge Michael L. Phelan.
So no, despite what Attawapiskat's Chief Theresa Spencer contends, the third-party manager appointed by the federal government to oversee the band's financial affairs is legitimate and uncontroversial other than in her mind and that of her council members who strenuously resent the control of reserve affairs in the hands of an outsider.
Leaving her and her band members unable to resort to their usual light-fingered touch on the reserve's financial management affairs. For the time being, in any event, for Chief Spencer has lodged a number of legal complaints to restore complete control of Attawapiskat's financial affairs to their inadequate and unfortunate care.
The transport of the 22 emergency modular homes for the community and the upgrades ordered to a number of existing homes are scheduled to commence as soon as the winter ice highway makes it possible and feasible to transport them - at some time in the coming week.
"There are trailers at Moosonee (and more to come) and the winter road is hardening. Despite all this, the parties seem locked in an inability to act in concert to move the trailers on site", wrote Judge Phelan in his decision that the appointment of the third-party manager did not cause irreparable harm t the community by removing the right of self-government from the band council.
"Time is critical; a loss of the ability to ship over the ice road means that the urgent project would be deferred until next year", he wrote. Chief Spencer would prefer to balk over the necessity to provide her community with the assistance it so direly requires, as a result of her mismanagement, rather than to submit to the presence of a government-sponsored interloper.
Her choice, reflecting her hard-rock position of unassailable incompetence. Reflecting who is responsible for the harm done to the community.
So no, despite what Attawapiskat's Chief Theresa Spencer contends, the third-party manager appointed by the federal government to oversee the band's financial affairs is legitimate and uncontroversial other than in her mind and that of her council members who strenuously resent the control of reserve affairs in the hands of an outsider.
Leaving her and her band members unable to resort to their usual light-fingered touch on the reserve's financial management affairs. For the time being, in any event, for Chief Spencer has lodged a number of legal complaints to restore complete control of Attawapiskat's financial affairs to their inadequate and unfortunate care.
The transport of the 22 emergency modular homes for the community and the upgrades ordered to a number of existing homes are scheduled to commence as soon as the winter ice highway makes it possible and feasible to transport them - at some time in the coming week.
"There are trailers at Moosonee (and more to come) and the winter road is hardening. Despite all this, the parties seem locked in an inability to act in concert to move the trailers on site", wrote Judge Phelan in his decision that the appointment of the third-party manager did not cause irreparable harm t the community by removing the right of self-government from the band council.
"Time is critical; a loss of the ability to ship over the ice road means that the urgent project would be deferred until next year", he wrote. Chief Spencer would prefer to balk over the necessity to provide her community with the assistance it so direly requires, as a result of her mismanagement, rather than to submit to the presence of a government-sponsored interloper.
Her choice, reflecting her hard-rock position of unassailable incompetence. Reflecting who is responsible for the harm done to the community.
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