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Six Nations Elected Council is pondering how to spend just over $3 million of the community\u2019s own source revenues. Let me say that again. Six Nations Elected Council, (SNEC) not the community, is deciding how the community\u2019s own source revenue, you know, your own funds, not government program dollars, will be spend. A move that does not include any community input, and adding insult to injury Elected Chief Sherr-Lyn Hill suggests the band council get together to discuss how the money will be spent. A move that could see this council blindly agreeing to pay off department deficits that could hit $11 million this year and as a result bailing out the federal and provincial government\u2019s funding deficits. For years millions of dollars in the community\u2019s own money, have been… <\/p>\n

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Six Nations Elected Council is pondering how to spend just over $3 million of the community\u2019s own source revenues. Let me say that again. Six Nations Elected Council, (SNEC) not the community, is deciding how the community\u2019s own source revenue, you know, your own funds, not government program dollars, will be spend. A move that does not include any community input, and adding insult to injury Elected Chief Sherr-Lyn Hill suggests the band council get together to discuss how the money will be spent. A move that could see this council blindly agreeing to pay off department deficits that could hit $11 million this year and as a result bailing out the federal and provincial government\u2019s funding deficits. For years millions of dollars in the community\u2019s own money, have been... <\/p>\n

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