The elected band councils are colonial constructs foisted upon first nations and therefore do not have the legitimacy (especially in the Woke culture) as the hereditary chiefs.
At least that is this weeks excuse, but rest assured if this get settled there will be another excuse and another and another.
Somehow, someway there has to be a process that is satisfying to all.
Until last week AFN Chief Perry Bellegarde seemed to be pretty silent on this issue. Now he's following the tenant of Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin - "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."
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