Grand Chief candidate proposes radical reforms

Just a question when you say first nation police are you stating that you will not accept other races into the force?

Perhaps a Yukon Police force would be a better term to use.

Oh wait it’s all about the FN’s and their money nvm.

I figure it’s about time to sell my house and move somewhere where whites are welcomed.

All this is well and good, but who is going to pay for it. Hmmm. Let me guess. The Second Nations.

Even with NO incidents happening.. if FN want self government.. they should have it all.. that means a police department, social services, (welfare) schools on reserves, and they should pay for this themselves.  I’ll pay for my government you pay for yours.  They should be allowed to tax their own people and promote and do business on or off their lands with the money going to support same self government.

You are not very independent if you are dependant on my money i.e. federal tax dollars, to do things your way.

I admire Joe Jack for running - but he is “yesterday’s man” with a lot of out-dated thinking.  I question his motivation for running in this election.  Does he have the fire in his belly to be the Grand Chief or is he looking for a new job with a decent salary?  Me thinks that he is tired of living in Inuvik and wants a new job.

Not really a huge list to chose from.. either a non yukoner with some experience or a former hairdresser with no experience..  CYFN should just fold, so many internal problems

I am uncertain whether Mr. Jack’s intentions will be beneficial to the Yukon as a whole. by creating more separate FN’s departments (ie police force) I feel that this will create more separatism from the rest of the Yukon and may lead to more racial discriminations. FN are a proud culture don’t get me wrong, but racism is a two way street and lately, in all honesty, persons of other races are being discriminated against. There are so many jobs already that are only open to FN’s and there are many persons of other racial decent that are unable to find decent work as they are not FN’s.

It’s sad really, I wish we could all just work together, put the past behind us and accept that we are all CANADIAN and maybe we only need one government with an equal amount of FN and other races in our government. I agree that if you are a self government you should have your people pay their own taxes and fund yourself if you want to be separate from everyone else.

I’m all for First Nations officers running the drunk tank at the RCMP station.  See how much better they do.  In fact, Joe brings up Ray Silverfox and how angry he is about that.  How is it that Ray ended up in there in the first place when so many of his friends, family and ‘First Nation’ cared so much about him?  There should be a ‘First Nation’ officer to call up every time a ‘First Nation’ ‘Member’ finds him or herself in the drunk tank.  Time to take some responsibility for your own?  Sure, fly at it.

And like someone else already said, Who’s going to pay for all this?  Why the ‘Second Nation’ of course!

And this guy has the gall to complain that HE’S the ‘second class citizen’.  That’s a good one.  Too bad it’s not funny.

sounds like a whole lot of duplication of services, maybe we should keep more of our children in school, encourage them to take advantage of the free post secondary education offered, and get them into positions within government and policing so we can all work together instead of separating ourselves apart.

I think Canadians at large should be aware of some dramatic recent ‘programming changes’ that have been going on regarding Canadian tax money being funnelled into FN coffers, for little or no return that I can see anyway.

For instance, the latest one is the FN neighbourhoods that are currently being developed, such as the ‘Country Res’ development out at the Carcross Cut-off in Golden Horn.  The FN is not particularly concerned with providing housing for their own, and definitely are not providing low income housing.  They are providing Country Rs. lots with the hopes that high income earners will lease the lots and have their income tax delivered to the FN who owns the settlement land.

If non-FN residents lease the properties, build homes on them and call them their primary residence,  either 75% or 95% of the federal and territorial taxes (depending on the deal they cut), that the non-native would have paid to the Canadian and Yukon governments will go straight to the coffers of the FN, just for the person living on their land.  Don’t believe me?  I know, sounds totally unbelievable.  Here’s a little cut and paste to get you started, go ahead and google it on your own:

“income tax and benefit return of individuals residing on the settlement lands of the
self-governing First Nations. The transferred amount is referred to as “Yukon First Nations Tax.” ....
All individuals, who reside within the settlement land of a self-governing Yukon First Nation including those who are not members of
a self-governing Yukon First Nation, have to identify themselves as residents of the settlement land of a particular self-governing….”

Read up on it!  I have read nothing that suggests that the FN is responsible for providing health care, education, policing, or any other service that these now-missing tax dollars would have gone toward.  Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it sure ain’t obvious.

Time for a serious article on this.  Our country, the tax payers of Canada, cannot continually be asked to bank roll this unsustainable situation.

Welcome home Joe Jack…but you are yesterday’s man. Its pretty obvious Ruth is capable in the Grand Chief’s position.  Her mandate comes from the leadership.  Terriorial wide election?  CYFN has a constitution.
For the rest of the comments?  We are all racist people, not one or the other.
Most work is done at the community FN government level.