Morin's excuses not acceptable

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There is only so much boloney a people can be expected to swallow, and Metis Nation of Saskatchewan president Gerald Morin's insistence his organization is woefully under-funded is just one thin slice too much.

During the course of the Deloitte and Touche, audit, which uncovered a sickening degree of financial mismanagement at the Metis Nation, Morin moaned that funding cuts and lack of resources are the reason his organization is in the financial mess it's in. He said government funding just didn't keep up with the growth of MNS.

Hog wash!

If you don't control where the money is being spent, Mr. Morin how can you be remotely sure it's not enough? Morin seems to think government funding should keep pace with his organization's unimpeded spending habits. Accountability seems a foreign concept to this free-wheeling, no-holds-barred, spend-thrift executive, and creative book-keeping the only constant.

This pretence of being too wrapped up in the struggle of protecting Metis rights and achieving Metis government to administer sound financial policy and procedure is laughable. Not even the most ignorant of us will swallow that backwash of bilge water. What MNS members have is an executive that can simultaneously walk and chew gum, but chooses not to. All concerns for the organization's financial health were shrugged off, deliberately and willfully.

The good work and the goals of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan have been severely undermined by the shameful and irresponsible conduct of the executive and its directors in regard to financial management. Whether this conduct has been criminal or just down right contemptible is a matter for the Justice Department, but be sure whatever strides the Metis Nations has made in the past few years have been tarnished without a doubt.