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By\u2008Lynda Powless Editor Six Nations Councillor Helen Miller is getting help keeping items from going into closed sessions in this term of council thanks to some of the new councillors. Some Six Nations Councillors have been moving items from in-cameras sessions into open citing the need to be more transparent to the community. Councillors opted to move several items from the in-camera agenda into the open at the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) Political Liaison committee meeting on February 26. Councillor Cynthia Jamieson said she didn\u2019t see a reason to keep some of the items private, including an update from Trevor Bomberry on a potential visit to the Navajo First Nation, a funding agreement from the Assembly of First Nations to partake in a review of the 1965 Welfare Act… <\/p>\n

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By\u2008Lynda Powless Editor Six Nations Councillor Helen Miller is getting help keeping items from going into closed sessions in this term of council thanks to some of the new councillors. Some Six Nations Councillors have been moving items from in-cameras sessions into open citing the need to be more transparent to the community. Councillors opted to move several items from the in-camera agenda into the open at the Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) Political Liaison committee meeting on February 26. Councillor Cynthia Jamieson said she didn\u2019t see a reason to keep some of the items private, including an update from Trevor Bomberry on a potential visit to the Navajo First Nation, a funding agreement from the Assembly of First Nations to partake in a review of the 1965 Welfare Act... <\/p>\n

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