First Nation members suing chief who received $800000 bonus for … – National Post
Two months after discovering that their chief collected an $800,000 bonus for signing away 236 hectares of land — effectively making him the highest paid elected official in Canada — members of the Vancouver-area Kwikwetlem First Nation are suing to have the deal overturned.
“I’m not against the chief, I’m against what he did,” said Kwikwetlem member Ron Jackman, the main plaintiff in the suit.
In July, documents made public by the First Nations Financial Transparency Act revealed that Kwikwetlem Chief Ron Giesbrecht made $914,219 tax free for the 2013/2014 fiscal year.
Most of Chief Giesbrecht’s income was due to him receiving a 10% cut of an $8-million payment made by the Province of British Columbia.
