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1. Federal government rewards chiefs, First Nations bands for lack of transparency

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, December 28, 2015 On Friday, the federal government chose to lift sanctions and restore salaries for the 43 First Nation chiefs that were not complying with the First Nations Transparency Act and withholding basic financial ...

2. Minister cites non-reasons to walk away from the First Nations Transparency Act

   On Friday the federal government announced that it would lift sanctions against First Nation communities that were not complying with the First Nations Transparency Act (FNTA). The Act requires all First Nation bands to make their ...

3. Democracy in First Nations communities requires an informed electorate

   In a letter to Richard Price in 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote "whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to ...