A new year is underway with a Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) that spent an entire five minutes in an open session dealing with the community’s business. Five minutes. We counted! After a five- minute open finance community session Monday, Jan. 5th, to approve an Indigenous Services Canada funding item they shut down, going into a closed session. A move that has become almost a hallmark of the current council and an expensive one for the community. SNEC’s 2024-2025 year alone saw the council earning a total of $934,939 of the community’s money on their various expenses from travel to Life and Health insurance costs and honoraria for attending meetings…some only five minutes long, before closing shop and going into a what amounts to a private session to deal with…






