: ' -misspending,
budgets,

- assistance

Natives seek
Reform party
assistance

_ REFORM MPS might find
"themselves forging alliances
--wwith natives, a group not
, normally considered to be
On friendly. terms with ‘the
. party.

‘They’re natives who feel
their band governments and
leaders aren’t being held ac-
countable for spending deci-

- _ sions they make,

Skeena Reform MP Mike
Scott, the party’s aboriginal
affairs critic, says he’s met
with scores of natives from
across the country who have
“worries about what their
leaders are doing.

“There are allegations of
of travel

ping,’’ said Scott.

“‘T should emphasize that
‘these are allegations, but
they are very serious allega-
tions from enough different
bands and members that it
should give pause for a
proper invesligation,” he
added,

Scott said his work with

"natives worried about their

“band governments —cul-
-minated in seven Reform
MPs meeting with 200 na-
tives Jast month in Prince
_. George.
' He'll be taking the mes-
sage of financial accoun-
tability and government
accountability to his
caucus when it meets this
week in Banff.

“We'll be encouraging
our caucus members to
take seriously the pleas for

“ receive from band mem-
bers,”’ said Scott.

“T think what we'll be |
“seeing is a better under-
* standing over time.”’

__- Scott’s heard pleas for
. assistance for years, but

they intensified after he .

took over the Reform
_ aboriginal alfaizs critic
past just over a year ago. |
- “DE must have 50 files
covering. B.C., Alberta,
’. Saskatchewan and
Manitoba,’’ he said.
“The questions of ac-.
countability: have every-
thing to do with the grow-
_ ing: number of bands
achieving levels of self
~ government, Scott con-
tinued.
“The aboriginal people
we have spoken to have
been very clear in saying ©
that before any kind of
self government can be
locked in, there has to be
fiscal and democratic ac-
countability,’” said Scott,

Assault
alleged

A TERRACE man faces as-
sault charges for allegedly

slapping his spouse last:

Tuesday night.

The 28-year-old man al-
legedly threw his spouse
onto. a sofa, pinned her
down. and slapped her face
just before midnight at the
couple’s home on Muller
Street in Terrace,

Constable J.R. Walker

said the matter was brought '
before the courts as part of °
the RCMP’s zero tolerance '

. policy . toward
_ Wiolenece.

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The MP added that the
federal Department of In-
dian Affairs has been of
no help to natives who
have worries about how
their band councils opera-
te.

“They keep telling us it
is an internal matter for
the band,”’ he said.

But Scott sees a larger
issue with the department,
one in which its officials
have deliberately hidden
information from the vari-
ous Indian Affairs minis-
ters over the years as how
to bad the situation really
is.

Mike Scott

‘Native people just can-
not get any kind of ac-

curate information on
what their bands do,’’ said
Scott.

‘Tt is clear to us,
through intemal depart-
ment documents that have
been leaked to us, that de-
partment officials know of
the serious of the situa-
tions of accountability and
of compliance, but conceal
the information.’’

Scott's also convinced
that RCMP officers trying
to investigate allegations

involving native govern- .
. ments are being wamed
political

off by their
masters.

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