Results of audit expected soon
Asked about criticism over the salaries of Spence and the rest of the band council that in 2010-11 totalled $304,364, Louttit said the Attawapiskat council agreed to a comprehensive audit looking at all the funding that goes into the community and how it's spent.
The salaries that year ranged from $22,980 to $69,579 for Spence and covered 22 people who sat on the council for anywhere from one month to a full year.
Louttit says the audit is done and being reviewed by the Aboriginal Affairs Department and Health Canada, which provide the funding.
"If a comprehensive audit or an offer for a forensic audit is not sufficient for people, then I don't know what is. There's just that perception out there: 'There's little old Attawapiskat, 2,000 people, they get $60 million over five years, wow, I can't fathom that. That's a problem,'" Louttit said.
In reality, he said, everything in the North costs up to 20 times more and as much as half of the government funding goes to education.
"I've worked in that system for many, years and I can vouch for the fact that it is very, very difficult to do business in a remote community. Not like it is in Ottawa, not like it is in Timmins or anywhere else... but the average Canadian out there, they see millions and millions and they just get concerned and said, 'Hey, there's something going on there.' But I challenge those people, come to the community and look at the books and come and live there for a couple of weeks and you'll see," Louttit said.
Harper wouldn't say when the audit will be released.
The f ucking article repeats that the AFN does not want to associate themselves with her.
Speaking Friday near Toronto, Harper said the AFN will "determine the composition of their own delegation."
Harper won't see her alone and she is tagging along with the AFN because he will see them. Will they allow her in their meeting with Harper as a member of their own delegation?
and yet, Atleo went to her along with a few other AFN reps. Oh ya, they just hate her, don't they.