It’s audit time. That arduous time of the year when governments at all levels start the challenge of wading through how public dollars were spent and explaining why. Indigenous governments across the country will put pen to paper to account for millions of dollars in federal and provincial funds and what they did with their community’s own source revenues. It hasn’t come without issues over the years. In March 2026 a forensic audit by KPMG of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations spending found almost $29 million in ineligible or unsupported funding. At the community level bands are required, under the First Nations Financial Transparent Act, to publish audited financial statements within 120 days of the financial year end. And when they do what they find isn’t surprising. Bands are…
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