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VANCOUVER — This week, the Annual Meeting of the First Nations Congress will be held in Vancouver. In Vancouver, there have been criticisms from the Secretary of State, who was denied attendance at the conference.
RoseAnne Archibald stated that her suspension violated the parliamentary charter and that regional chiefs were not authorized to suspend national chiefs.
She states that her suspension is a means of intimidating, punishing, and silencing her allegations of possible misuse of public funds by Congress.
An Ontario court rejected a bid last week to overturn her suspension by Archibald.
Archibald claimed she was attacked because she tried to investigate corruption in parliament, and she requested a court audit of the organization for the past eight years.
Until Monday, Archibald was scheduled to speak at the beginning of the meeting, but she tweeted that she was "erased" from the proceedings in an effort to hold Congress accountable in a court audit. Said. ..
"This is a parliamentary chief meeting, not an AFN (executive) meeting," she said.
In one of the pre-parliamentary resolutions, she failed to get the 60% of the votes she needed in last year's election, so she should dismiss Archibald from her office and hold a new election. I'm looking for.
Pikuwa Kanagan First Nations Algonquian chief Wendy Jocco brought an emergency resolution to the floor at an AFN meeting on social media, saying, "Unfounded Archibald's Illegal Stop. ".
The theme of the parliamentary meeting is "Walking the Way of Healing" and AFN will compensate indigenous children and their families for the harm caused by the chronic lack of funding for child welfare. It will begin the day after announcing the $ 100 million settlement. Reserve.
AFN Regional Chief Cynthia Woodhouse, chief negotiator of the Parliamentary Child Welfare Agreement, said leadership issues did not affect her work.
"First Nations sometimes experiences turbulent times, but we know that we have experienced so many things historically. This work is very important.
Indigenous Services Minister Patty Heidu said that many organizations are experiencing such problems, which is an opportunity to determine the right approach to governance. Said that.
"Of course, I think strong AFN is good for the country, and for the many indigenous groups and communities it represents."
She is a federal government. He said his job was not to decide how indigenous peoples should be organized, but to work with those countries.
—Use files from Sarah Ritchie.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on July 5, 2022.
