I sure hope so because as an ordinary band member I see a real struggle on the reserve. I can just speak about my own experience and my own reserve. When people found out the salaries of some chief and council members they were pretty outraged. It's pretty hard to live on social assistance, which many people have to live on, which is $111 every two weeks. Then they see the chief and council making salaries that are sometimes over $200,000. These people are struggling. They obviously don't see any improvements in their lives on the reserves, so of course they want to know where all the money is going and why the chief and council are getting such huge salaries.
On October 22nd, 2012. See this statement in context.