Ontario First Nation election offers lessons in democracy, transparency – CBC
Aug 17, 2015
New Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug chief makes community healing, accountability top priority
A remote First Nation in northern Ontario is providing a model for how government accountability and transparency can be practised.
James Cutfeet was elected chief of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (Big Trout Lake) First Nation in July after the former chief, Donny Morris, and several councillors offered their resignations.
Cutfeet, a former civil servant with the federal Aboriginal Affairs ministry, said the two top priorities for his mandate are getting the community’s finances in order and healing the rift in the First Nation, caused by a three-way split in the votes.
