How much is this man's annual taxpayer salary?
Frank Godon has left a new comment on your post, "MMF Election 2010 coverage continues!"Hi Clare,
The answer to your question of the MMF President's salary being public knowledge is outlined in Policy Number 2 of our Platform - as for releasing David Chartrand's - I would have to check with a legal source to see if we can release this kind of information once we win.
As you are aware, the Manitoba Metis Federation is run as a corporation and, as such, there may be rules in place about divulging information like this publicly - but if there is nothing stopping us from doing such I make the promise that after an internal audit - by a neutral party - all monies made by the President, Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors including salaries and perks will be made public given it's the taxpayers of Manitoba and Canada whose money is being spent.
As for your question on the CyberSmokeSignals lawsuit - I have a current message prepared and being reviewed to make sure I can deliver what I promise - it should be up on our website very soon.
The people have to remember that unless candidates step forward to run for Board of Directors and Vice-Presidents - when I win as President and the same old Board is elected then I will be shackled in what I can do as President - so my challenge to those out there who believe in what we are doing is to take a serious look at running in their Regions and joining our team as together we can put together a strong campaign. Our website can be their website and our campaign their campaign.
Thank you for taking an interest in our cause even though you are not Metis and for posting information on your blog.
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Dear Candidate Godon:
Thank you for writing. Your e-mail contains a lot of information so we'll break it down point by point for our readers:
1. Since the MMF is a provincially and federally funded "not-for-profit, non share organization incorporated under the laws of Manitoba" (Federation lawyer Murray Trachtenberg - April, 2001), there is no reason whatsoever this information should not be in the public domain. Anyone can go online to easily and quickly find the salaries of Premier Selinger and his Cabinet so why not David Chartrand, his Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors? Can it be released? Hopefully, The Public Eye (Truth To Power - www.accesstoinfo.blogspot.com; vicpopuli1@gmail.com) a practicing Canadian lawyer will see your comments and offer an opinion.
As you are aware, the Manitoba Metis Federation is run as a corporation and, as such, there may be rules in place about divulging information like this publicly - but if there is nothing stopping us from doing such I make the promise that after an internal audit - by a neutral party - all monies made by the President, Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors including salaries and perks will be made public given it's the taxpayers of Manitoba and Canada whose money is being spent.
As for your question on the CyberSmokeSignals lawsuit - I have a current message prepared and being reviewed to make sure I can deliver what I promise - it should be up on our website very soon.
The people have to remember that unless candidates step forward to run for Board of Directors and Vice-Presidents - when I win as President and the same old Board is elected then I will be shackled in what I can do as President - so my challenge to those out there who believe in what we are doing is to take a serious look at running in their Regions and joining our team as together we can put together a strong campaign. Our website can be their website and our campaign their campaign.
Thank you for taking an interest in our cause even though you are not Metis and for posting information on your blog.
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Dear Candidate Godon:
Thank you for writing. Your e-mail contains a lot of information so we'll break it down point by point for our readers:
1. Since the MMF is a provincially and federally funded "not-for-profit, non share organization incorporated under the laws of Manitoba" (Federation lawyer Murray Trachtenberg - April, 2001), there is no reason whatsoever this information should not be in the public domain. Anyone can go online to easily and quickly find the salaries of Premier Selinger and his Cabinet so why not David Chartrand, his Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors? Can it be released? Hopefully, The Public Eye (Truth To Power - www.accesstoinfo.blogspot.com; vicpopuli1@gmail.com) a practicing Canadian lawyer will see your comments and offer an opinion.
Counselor Trachtenberg at Page 8 Paragraphs 26 and 27 of his January 15, 2008 Re-Amended Statement of Claim against the now defunct www.CyberSmokeSignals.com clearly states:
26. The President of the MMF is also the Chief Executive Officer of the MMF and serves as a full-time salaried employee of the MMF.
27. None of the positions on the MMF Board of Directors, except for the Office of President, are salaried positions. (emphasis ours)
Therefore, the logical conclusions to be drawn are:
(a) Manitoba Metis Federation Board of Directors are volunteers
(b) Or much more likely receive other financial compensation in lieu of salaries such as per diems for attending Board Meetings and other Federation business in which they're involved. Are they given travel allowances too?
2. On the subject of you and your team's position regarding the MMF's taxpayer financed defamation lawsuit against what is now a defunct website (www.CyberSmokeSignals.com), we'll withhold comment until we've had a chance to study it
3. CyberSmokeBlog endorses any independent third-party audit of the Federation
4. Your call for greater participation and voter turnout is well taken one has only to look at the numbers. There are an estimated 120,000 citizens of Metis heritage living in Manitoba about 35,000-40,000 of whom are members of the MMF yet only approximately 5, 200 voted in their June 2006 election - that's pathetic! Why? We believe the traditional methods being employed by the current leadership simply are not working and missing the broad band of younger votes who largely reside online. Like Barack Obama the effective use of the internet, Facebook Pages, Twitter and YouTube will be key to getting your message out and raising campaign funds
5. You are welcome. Freedom of speech and expression is not limited by race, creed or colour. Good Luck!
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
posted by Clare L. Pieuk at 10:09 AM
3 Comments:
The positions of Vice Presidents are salaried the same as the President. I think that if Counselor Trachtenberg has considered the VP's as BOD's then he's not telling the truth in this statement of claim.
Oh - forgot - the last census showed that there were 71,805 self identified Metis or 18% of the total 389,785 in Canada - I've heard this number of an estimated 120,000 before too but remembered the census link on Metis Mamma's blog so went there to check it out
(http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-558/index-eng.cfm?CFID=339267&CFTOKEN=85523224)
As for how many are registered to vote in MB - I will be receiving a voters list from the 2006 MMF elections soon - although I was told there was one on line but I can't find it. This will tell us how many of these 71K are members being allowed to vote.
When thinking of the MMF and its elections I am reminded of what Joseph Stalin said -
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
One of my promises which is on my upcoming video (still in production) is that if elected I would see to it that Elections Manitoba take over and run any future MMF elections completely distant from the MMF.
Here is the posted story on the lawsuits
http://metisonline.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164:lawsuits&catid=42:rokstories
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