Editorial: Hmmm, audit time coming…

Editorial

Six Nations Elected Council is facing yet another audit year. For us here at Turtle Island News it will be the 33rd budget since we launched the newspaper. A local band budget that went from $1 million to today’s $30 million plus. At least, it would be $30 million if the band didn’t dump the community’s own source revenues on it to bring it down to what it thinks the community will accept . So instead of seeing a $30 million deficit the community would only see a $8 or $9 million deficit depending on how much own source revenues are used to keep a lid on the overspending. Those own source revenues, by the way, are the community’s own dollars including gaming dollars that come in annually from two…

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