It’s 2025! And it couldn’t have come any sooner. No question 2024 was an interesting year. With the third woman elected to head the Six Nations Elected Council still getting her feet despite her more than a decade on band council to the enlargement of the band council from eight to 12 and a learning curve still in place at the end of the year. And a female finance minister and deputy prime minister getting dumped. While Ottawa may have thought the smoke was clearing First Nation leaders began taking aim when the federal government tried to blame First Nation land settlements for the deficit that ballooned past the $40 billion and is expected to hit $61 billion. The Finance Department charged the huge increase was due to a “significant…
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