Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Indian Industry

...defends its turf. And guess who leads the charge.

1 Comments:

Blogger Balbulican said...

Well, let's looks at what Frances acknowledges in this little debacle.

In her blog post, she claimed that the AHF had never been evaluateed. That was a lie.

In her National Post rewrite, she claimed that it had only been evaluated internally. That was a lie.

She claimed their CEO, Mike DeGagne, is not an Aboriginal person. That was a lie.

She validates her critique based on a letter by Gilbert Oskaboose eight years ago (carefully NOT providing the date). Everyone was frustrated with the AHF for the first couple of years of its operations - but they brought in folks like Gail Valaskis, redesigned their granting. management and governance systems, and have run smoothly ever since.

There's lots to criticize in First Nations and Inuit organizations, no question; which makes Widdowson's little ideological squawk that much more frustrating.

January 18, 2010 5:48 am  

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