Shuswap Chief Paul Sam And Ex-Wife Making More Than $200K each – Huffington Post Canada

November 3, 2014

Disgruntled First Nation band members from Shuswap, B.C. are going public with band financing figures released under the Conservative government’s First Nation’s Financial Transparency Act in the hopes of overturning the leadership in elections next Friday

Under the Act, First Nations must post their audited financial statements for the last fiscal year online.

The documents, show Chief Paul Sam and councillor Alice Sam, the chief’s ex-wife, both earning more than $200,000 a year.

Many on the tiny Shuswap reserve of 87 people have asked questions for more than a decade about the band’s spending, even going so far as to occupy the band office demanding answers that until now went unanswered.

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