Six Nation Elected Council admin changes creating concerns

Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) continues to experience issues with processes, procedures and memories. Councillor Helen Miller expressed concern about researchers skipping the ethics committee and going straight to council. Her concerns focused on Andri Kramarenko, a University of Waterloo Masters student, who visited in August requesting to film drone footage of the Grand River and a project called Lazar, that wasn’t discussed in an open agenda. “Do these not have to go through ethics anymore?” Miller asked. “They’re collecting data, they’re doing research.” CEO Nathan Wright said Kramarenko had gone through the ethics committee and was approved, but he acknowledged the Lazar project had not and he was pushing it back to ethics, “to get it back through the proper channels.” Councillor Cynthia Jamieson interjected that she had never…

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