Those reported at top of First Nations pay ladder say financial statements are misleading – Kenora Daily
November 4, 2014
The band councillor and the family of the chief who were reported by the Daily Miner and News in a news story Monday, Nov. 3, to be the highest paid in the Treaty 3 area, say the information contained in financial statements from the First Nations Financial Transparency Act reports upon which the story was based is misleading.
Both Darcy Whitecrow of Seine River and the family of deceased Couchiching chief Chuck McPherson say they were not paid as much as the statements indicate.
According to the financial statement provided to the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs under the First Nations Transparency Act, McPherson received a total remuneration of $98,531 for nine months during the fiscal year he was an elected official. In providing a comparison of all Treaty 3 area chiefs, the Daily Miner and News used an annual salary as the base and arrived at $127,774.66 being what McPherson would have been paid over 12 months based on the reported remuneration for nine months.
