Editorial: Bureaucratic management has descended

Editorial

Six Nations Elected Council has become, well, simply put, just too bureaucratic. That is, the councillors themselves appear to be creating more bloat and are making following the still newly created administrative procedures a priority and forgetting about common sense. The ballooning bureaucracy created by the past council and supported by the current one is in fact changing the council itself from community representatives to elected bureaucratic managers. Case in point. SNEC recently decided to take a look at their community funding policy. A policy aimed at cutting out the red tape in helping community groups get projects off the ground or simply keep running. Unfortunately, in cutting that red tape, they lengthened it. Let’s start with the name. Instead of a simple community donation fund we now have the…

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