The Harper - First Nations Summit January 24, 2012

I have not prepared a blog on Indigenous issues since August 2011 because I fractured my right wrist and was unable to work full-time.  However, I’m back! 

I have been reading blogs and news articles on the upcoming First Nations and Crown Summit between the Indian Act Chiefs and Prime Minister Harper that is taking place on January 24, 2012 and have been disheartened by what I am reading.  The needs of our people are being ignored once again by the academics and politicians, both Aboriginal and not. 

First Nations in Canada are governed by the Indian Act, a racist piece of legislation that was designed in 1876 to “kill the Indian” and assimilate our people into mainstream society.  It is an Act of cultural genocide.  Our culture is being murdered and not one of our “leaders”, except National Chief Atleo (how ironic), are advocating on our behalf to stop the genocide that is occurring today. 

Anyone who knows anything about Indigenous peoples and politics will tell you that the problems facing our people today are not caused by the current Aboriginal politicians of the day, like National Chief Atleo, who lack the courage to speak up on our behalf. The broken and racist Indian Act system is the cause of all of our problems.  The National Chiefs of the National Aboriginal Organizations, past and present, perpetuate the problems through their self-interest and greed. 

A Summit between the Chiefs and Prime Minister Harper’s bureaucrats on January 24, 2012 is not going to produce any initiatives that will reduce the poverty in First Nations and neither will the Liberal Party’s Kelowna Accord. STOP referring to the Kelowna Accord like it’s the Holy Grail!! The Summit is a political ploy to soothe our Chiefs into submission and it is working.  

I am neither a Liberal or Conservative Party supporter. My blog is strictly the view of an educated First Nations female lawyer who happens to have experience working for and/or with the federal government, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP), as well as numerous First Nations.  I have worked with First Nations people on and off-reserve.  I have seen it all and I know exactly how the dysfunctional and broken Indian Act regime works and devastates our people to this day. 

It is time to address the plight of our people in a wholistic manner that meets the needs of our people, and not the needs of an individual who wants attention and fame.  

One has to wonder about the mindset of a First Nations person who would refer to the Kelowna Accord, a Liberal Party project that is a “one-size-fits-all”, top down, colonial approach similar to the Indian Act regime. Referring to or calling on the implementation of the Kelowna Accord is proof that some of our people have internalized the Indian Act regime despite their outward calls for self-government on behalf of our people.  One should be wary of those individuals.  It will only lead to more oppression and colonization.  

The Kelowna Accord would take years, and several costly roundtables, to figure out how to implement, and a big fight would ensue among the people as to the amount of money that would be sent to individual First Nations.  The only people who would benefit from the Kelowna Accord would be the National Chief of the AFN and his consultant friends aka the “Aboriginal industry”.  The Kelowna Accord was a project to soothe the Chiefs into submission just like the current Summit on January 24, 2012 and boy, was it ever successful in doing just that.   Some of our First Nations people have internalized the Kelowna Accord just like they did the Indian Act! 

The only solution to solving poverty in First Nations communities is to repeal the Indian Act and for our people to take the initiative and build their own accountable governance structures.  Once our people have effective and accountable governing institutions in place, successful economic development will take place.  However, many of our people do not have the capacity to build their own institutions and require assistance from our non-Aboriginal counterparts.  It requires the will of mainstream society to step forward and assist our people on this endeavour. Doing so will benefit the Canadian taxpayer in the long run.  Our people will become self-sufficient, thus, requiring a decrease in the transfer of tax dollars to First Nations. 

The motives of any person who blames only the National Chief of the AFN for our problems without discussing the real issues and actions of other “leaders” and organizations should be examined because often you will find self-interest underlying their comments.  Such self-interests could be that their friend or him/herself, wants to become an Aboriginal politician or is seeking attention.  The average non-First Nations and First Nations person is uninformed about Indigenous issues and Indigenous politics and therefore, runs the risk of believing what the person is saying. 

  

One should always inform himself of all the issues from several sources before relying solely on one source.  

As for the current Summit on January 24, 2012, I will not be watching National Chief Atleo because he cannot advocate for us in the way we want him to.  The position of National Chief of the AFN is a token federal government position designed to implement the federal government’s Indian agenda.  It has always been this way and will never change.  If the National Chief speaks up on our behalf, the Prime Minister will pull the AFN funding.  Pulling funding from the AFN is how the federal government controls and oppresses us.  It does not matter who is in that position or who the political party of the day is. The Liberals and Conservatives behave the same way towards First Nations people when they are in power and their goal is to assimilate us through the Indian Act.

  

If you are going to bash National Chief Atleo, bash the Vice-Chiefs of the AFN as well because they are just as responsible as National Chief Atleo for perpetuating our problems. Furthermore, bash all the National Chiefs of the AFN, CAP, and NWAC (past and present) because they also perpetuated the problems. The only difference between then and now is that now we have access to the internet and are able to reach the grassroots people to inform them of the inactions of the National Chiefs.

NWAC did not lose their Sisters in Spirit (SIS) funding because they brought international attention to the issue of missing and murdered women.  They lost their funding because the SIS program dollars did not produce anything substantial in terms of change for missing and murdered women.  It brought attention to the issue of missing and murdered women but there is much more that NWAC could have been done on the issue.  For example, outreach programs could have been initiated at the grassroots level to prevent prostitution.  Where did the SIS funding dollars go and how did NWAC use that money?  That is question that we, as First Nations women, should be asking NWAC.  The majority of First Nations women were not even consulted on this issue!!

  

The National Chiefs of the AFN, CAP, and NWAC are not accountable to First Nations people. They are accountable to the federal government.  The National Chiefs sell off our rights behind the scenes in exchange for senate appointments and pictures with politicians and diplomats.  They are rewarded for being a good token Aboriginal for the federal government.  The National Chief of the day collects a big tax-free pay check and gets to live in the city!

A real leader is one, like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, who leads with integrity and not for personal gain.  The National Chiefs will not have their faces implanted on the side of a mountain like Crazy Horse, that's for sure!  Crazy Horse would never pose for a picture with the President. In fact, he refused to pose to have his face drawn! 

 A real leader works for his people and examines and exposes all the facts, no matter how disheartening, and exposes all wrongdoing to the public, not just those of his enemy! 

It is time to stop calling on the National Chiefs of AFN, CAP, and NWAC to do something about our interests as First Nations people.  It will never work.  The only solution is to repeal the Indian Act and build our own accountable governing institutions. 

  

It all comes down to Indigenous Governance!!

As a side note:  National Chief Atleo deserves some credit.  At least he is calling for the repeal of the Indian Act!  He knows that the Indian Act is the problem.  He is getting the movement started!

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The mandate of the Assembly of First Nations - there is none!

The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) gets his "mandate", to unilaterally make decisions without consulting the grassroots people, from resolutions that are passed at General Assemblies and Special Chiefs Assemblies. However, attendance and quorum at these events is questionable.  There are approximately 630 Chiefs in Canada. How many of these Chiefs are actually present when resolutions are passed at the AFN assemblies? Does the National Chief even check quorum???  If quorum does not exist, the National Chief most likely does not have a valid mandate.

Watch the videos of past assemblies and determine for yourself whether the National Chief's office checked quorum just prior to passing resolutions   The videos will speak for themselves. Of course, the National Chief could always post online the attendance of those Chiefs who are present and the quorum checks just prior to passing resolutions in order to refute my statements. 

Come on National Chief Atleo, show us the integrity of your office and post the quorum checks and attendance just prior to passing resolutions.  I would love to be wrong on this issue.  Prove me wrong! We, the grassroots people have a right to know whether your resolutions are even valid in the first place!

The National Chief of the AFN is an illegitimate position and the organization itself requires major reform to reflect the diversity and autonomy of First Nations at the grassroots level.

I would say it's about time to change the status quo and make the "National Chief" accountable to everyone, including the Chiefs on the ground. 

Stay tuned for another blog on the charitable status of the AFN.  I am sure that many non-First Nations people would donate to the AFN if it had a reformed and accountable governance structure and charitable status so that donators could write the donation off when they file tax returns.  However, AFN does not have charitable status and cannot give tax receipts for donations. If it did have charitable status, the board of directors (the Executive Committee, including the National Chief) would not be able to receive their big, fat, tax-free paychecks.  Who suffers?  The grassroots people.

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Non-Aboriginal Judge heads Ontario inquiry into Aboriginal participation in juries

"Years of complaints that First Nations people have been systematically excluded from serving on juries in Ontario culminated Thursday in the provincial government calling an independent review into the situation. 

In a statement late Thursday, Attorney General Chris Bentley announced former Supreme Court of Canada justice Frank Iacobucci would review a jury system that on-reserve natives say has failed them badly."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/08/11/ontario-aboriginal-inquiry.html

Justice Frank Iacobucci is a distinguished judge and no disrespect to him, but why isn't an Aboriginal person heading this inquiry? 

"Lawyer Julian Falconer, who is acting for the Nishnawbe Aski, called the independent inquiry into the issue a Canadian first."  Julian Falconer is a distinguished lawyer and no disrespect to him, but why is Nishnawbe Aski using a non-First Nations lawyer to represent our interests when there are plenty of First Nations lawyers in Ontario who are just as capable as Falconer?

Why is it that in 2011, non-Aboriginal legal people are still being selected by government officials and some of our leaders to examine legal issues that affect Aboriginal people?

There are plenty of educated Aboriginal legal people in Ontario who are perfectly capable of examining issues that affect us. 

Another issue that requires examination is the lack of Aboriginal duty counsel in our court rooms. Like juries, non-Aboriginal duty counsel are also representing Aboriginal people in criminal court.  Our people need legal representation by First Nations duty counsel in the criminal justice system.  For example, there are three Aboriginal lawyers in Cornwall and not one of them is duty counsel.  Why not?  If there is one criminal justice setting that requires reform, it is Cornwall. 

The needs of First Nations people in the criminal law setting are not being met. 

The inquiry should be expanded to study the issue of the lack of Aboriginal duty counsel.  If Ontario is going to pay Justice Iacobucci a hefty salary for this inquiry using our tax dollars, he should examine the lack of Aboriginal duty counsel as well.  Kill two birds with one stone and use our tax dollars wisely!

The Ontario government's inherent racism towards Aboriginal people is blatantly obvious when our issues are continually being examined by non-Aboriginal people.  The same goes for those First Nations leaders who hire non-First Nations lawyers to advocate on our behalf when we have plenty of qualified legal people who can do the job.  It's an insult to Aboriginal people.  We are just as deserving of respect and dignity like our non-Aboriginal neighbours.

It is 2011 and it is time for Ontario and our First Nations' leaders to start recognizing that Aboriginal people are just as capable as non-Aboriginal people.  Use our people!

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Organizations and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry

First Nations women, especially the missing and murdered First Nations female victims of Robert Pickton, are pawns in the Aboriginal industry and we are used to benefit certain people or groups at certain times. Once our usefulness is gone, we are tossed aside as quickly as we were used to seek money from the government.  It is a sad situation that our interests are only considered when it suits the personal needs of a person or an Aboriginal organization like the Native Women’s Association of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations. 

All of the organizations, including the non-Aboriginal organizations, claiming to represent the missing and murdered First Nations female victims of Robert Pickton are screaming for public money to hire legal counsel to participate in the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. 

Do these organizations, Aboriginal and not, really have the interests of the missing and murdered First Nations female victims of Pickton at heart?  How many of these organizations are actually going to hire First Nations female lawyers to represent the interests of the missing and murdered First Nations women at the Inquiry?  Who is the lawyer representing the families of the missing and murdered First Nations women?  Is this lawyer a First Nations female?

We, as First Nations women, have a right to know all the details about the lawyers who are representing our interests.  How many of them are actually First Nations female lawyers?

Here is the link to my previous blog on the groups who withdrew from participating in the Inquiry due to lack of funding. http://charlenedesrochers.blogspot.com/2011/08/compromise-hiring-four-lawyers-for.html.

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Compromise: Hiring Four Lawyers for the Pickton Inquiry

“The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is looking to hire four lawyers to represent the interests of First Nations women and residents of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The commission of inquiry came up with the plan after the provincial government refused to provide legal funding for 12 of 13 groups who have been granted standing to participate in the inquiry, which will probe the police failures during the investigations of serial killer Robert Pickton.”   This inquiry is informally known as the Pickton Inquiry and many of the missing and murdered women were First Nations women.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Compromise+lawyers+hired/5216373/story.html#ixzz1UG0SSy8o.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) were denied funding to participate in the Pickton Inquiry.  NWAC reportedly withdrew from participating in the Pickton Inquiry because of the lack of funding.  I have yet to see a news article verifying this fact.  However, a few other organizations withdrew over the past few days because they were denied funding to hire legal counsel. 

Grand Chief Phillip Stewart of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) formally withdrew from the Pickton Inquiry.  UBCIC should have been funded to participate in the Pickton Inquiry because Grand Chief Phillip Stewart truly has the interests of our people at heart. He would have ensured that all of the important issues affecting First Nations women were addressed at the Inquiry.  He is a leader that has the ability to think collectively about our issues.    

http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews07271101.html

On the other hand, I do not have any sympathy, whatsoever, for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) who were denied funding to participate in the Pickton Inquiry. 

We all know that the AFN and NWAC are federal government organizations called “National Aboriginal Organizations” that sell off our rights in exchange for big tax-free paychecks.  The AFN and NWAC use federal monies to hire their consultant/lawyer friends to develop First Nations policies and they would do the same if they were funded to participate in the Pickton Inquiry.  They would hire their lawyer friends to represent the interests of First Nations women and most likely that friend would be non-Aboriginal or an Aboriginal male.  It is called the Aboriginal industry for a reason and only the Aboriginal industry would benefit from the Pickton Inquiry.

It is time for the offices of the National Chief of the AFN and CAP (Congress of Aboriginal Peoples), and the President of NWAC to take a good hard look at their governance style and assess the relationship between their lawyers/consultants and their office. One will find many friends reaping the benefits of federal dollars. Perhaps the offices of the National Chiefs of the AFN, CAP, and NWAC would actually have some credibility among the people if they reformed their governance practices and were actually accountable to the people.  We are not allowed to participate in decision-making or to vote in free and fair elections for the positions of National Chief and President of these organizations.

AFN, CAP, and the President of NWAC sold off the rights of all Aboriginal women by supporting Bill C-3 in 2010, the discriminatory amendments to the Indian Act that restores status as an Indian under the Indian Act to some Indian women who married non-Indian men and their children, but not all.  Prior to 1985, Indian women lost their status as Indians under the Indian Act if they married non-Indian men whereas non-Indian women gained status as an Indian if they married Indian men. 

Bill C-3 still denies Indian status to Indian women who married non-Indian men, and their children, and it is an act of cultural genocide against our people.  The AFN, CAP, and NWAC were told by the federal government that funding for roundtables on citizenship would not be forthcoming until Bill C-3 was passed into law.  AFN, CAP, and NWAC supported Bill C-3 and are committing cultural genocide against our people. These organizations are now happily implementing citizenship roundtables and their boards of directors are continuing to receive big tax-free paychecks at our expense.

Many of the missing and murdered women from downtown East Vancouver were First Nations and also negatively affected by Bill C-3 just like the rest of us.  Did AFN, CAP and NWAC think of these missing and murdered women when they unilaterally chose to support Bill C-3 without consulting the people??? 

Supporting Bill C-3 was an act of spiritual, cultural and physical violence against First Nations women.  The President of NWAC, Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell, perpetuated lateral violence against our women by supporting Bill C-3.  She fought her own personal battle against the discriminatory Indian Act status provisions in the 1970s, which is at the heart of Bill C-3 today.  Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell lost her status as Indian in the 1970’s because she married a non-Indian man and she fought this discrimination against her all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Here is the link to the Attorney General of Canada v. Lavell, [1974] S.C.R. 1349 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1974 dismissing Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell’s appeal regarding her disenfranchisement from the Indian Act because she married a non-Indian man.   http://scc.lexum.org/en/1973/1974scr0-1349/1974scr0-1349.html.

Why did Jeannette Corbiere-Laval support Bill C-3??

So, please excuse me if I do not feel any sympathy for NWAC and the AFN for not receiving funding to participate in the Pickton Inquiry.

Perhaps, hiring four lawyers to represent First Nations women is the most logical approach to funding the interests arising from the Pickton Inquiry.  They should hire lawyers who actually have knowledge and professional experience working on issues affecting First Nations women.  I, for one, am supportive of this approach.  At least we would be sure that the Aboriginal industry, i.e. friends of the National Chief of the AFN and President of NWAC, would not reap the benefits of the taxpayers’ income.

After all, NWAC is not a true representative group of First Nations women.  We are not allowed to participate in their decision-making processes unless we formally become a member of NWAC yet the President of NWAC unilaterally makes decisions that negatively affect us all. Need I say more???

WHO IS WATCHING OUT FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN?    Certainly not the President of NWAC or the National Chief of the AFN.

Harper’s Token Aboriginals meet Prince William and Kate!

What did I tell you folks?  Didn’t I mention in my previous blog that the Prime Minister parades his token Aboriginals, the “National Chiefs” of the National Aboriginal Organizations (NAO’s), around at state events as a side show to foreign diplomats???

The President of the Quebec Native Women’s Association beamed with pride this afternoon when she advised the Chiefs at the AFN Annual General Assembly (AGA) in Moncton that the event with Prince William and Kate went well! 

Harper must have said to his tokens as they wiggled in anticipation:  “My children, you have done well this past year.  Thank you so much for supporting all of my assimilative policies and for helping to assimilate your people.  In return, I will allow you to meet Prince William and Kate and have your picture taken with them.” 

We all knew that National Chief Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was a wolf in sheep’s clothing but I was shocked that he admitted it.  For the event with Prince William at the Calgary Stampede, National Chief Atleo went as himself.  He put on his cowboy outfit and played his true role in this world, which is that of “cowboy” instead of an “Indian”!!  Atleo had his picture taken with Prince William and Atleo had the biggest grin on his face!  

Harper must love the President of the Quebec Native Women’s Association (QNWA) because she appeared before the Senate Committee on Human Rights in December 2010 and supported Bill C-3, the Indian status provisions that discriminate against Aboriginal women, who married non-Aboriginal men, and their children. The President of QNWA announced to the Senate Committee that she was supporting Bill C-3 because her son was going to become a status Indian under Bill C-3!!  I was horrified that she had sold out all Aboriginal women and their children because her son was going to become a status Indian under Bill C-3. 

This same President of QNWA organized a march from Wendake, QC to Ottawa, Ontario in the summer of August 2010 in response to the federal government’s introduction of the racist Bill C-3, which still, by the way, discriminates against Aboriginal women, who married non-Aboriginal men, and their children.  She called it the “March for Amun” and Aboriginal women joined her march.   At the time I supported the march because I thought that the President of QNWA was marching for the rights of all Aboriginal women and children.  Imagine my surprise when she advised the Senate Committee on Human Rights in December 2010 that she supported Bill C-3 because her son was going to become a status Indian under it!! Talk about selling out your vulnerable constituents, our Aboriginal women.

Here is the link to the “March for Amun”: http://www.ottawaalgonquins.com/index_files/Amun%20March.pdf.

At the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly in December 2010, this same President of QNWA announced to the Chiefs that she was contributing to the AFN education fund because it would benefit her children.

Yes, Mrs. President, we get the picture.  However, your job is to advocate for the rights of all Aboriginal women, not just yourself!!

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The "New Colonizer" and his take on the "New Fur Trade"

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held a summit this past week on natural resources where more than 800 Indigengous leaders and business people (international/domestic) sat down to forge new relationships and to talk business (and sign contracts) about the extraction of natural resources from First Nations territories in partnership with First Nations.  APTN News covered the story at this link:  http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/06/30/afn-summit-aimed-at-capitalizing-on-the-new-fur-trade/. 

National Chief Atleo referred to this new relationship as the "new fur trade".  He said, "it was the fur trade that forged the first part of the economy".  He spoke about the natural resources that were taken from First Nations territories during the fur trade and said that modern day energy and mining ventures are the economic doors for future prosperity of First Nations people.

The "new fur trade"??!  Hmmm, I think that someone should educate "National Chief" Atleo about the disastrous effects of the old fur trade on our people and tell him that that "new fur trade" will maintain the status quo if the Indian Act remains in place. 

"National Chief" Atleo, take a look around you and you will see what the fur trade did to us!  It resulted in Apartheid:  the racist Indian Act; the residential school system and sexual/physical abuse of our children; the Sixties Scoop (adopting our children into non-Indigenous homes); and the stealing of our land and the resources on and under those lands.  The intergenerational impacts of the fur trade are alive and well today, i.e. high unemployment, violence against Indigenous women, addictions, poverty, inadequate housing, illness, and oppression by some of our own leaders, mainly, the overpaid federal government employee called the "National Chief" of the AFN. 

Yes, partnerships in economic development will provide for future prosperity of First Nations but if the Indian Act governance structures remain in place and First Nations citizens are not allowed to participate in decision-making, that prosperity will not come to fruition. It will be "smoke and mirrors".  Look at some of our rich First Nations.  Has the profits from their industry improved the poor socio-economic conditions in their communities?  No, it has not, and why not?  Greed and the Indian Act regime is the answer to that question.  The Indian Act allows greed to flourish by providing a colonial governance system, which gives the leadership control over their people and the profits from the resource extraction. We did not govern ourselves that way.  Traditionally, the community directed the leadership and the leadership implemented that direction.  Greed breeds crime and dysfunction.

"National Chief" Atleo is right when he calls modern day agreements between First Nations leaders and business companies regarding energy and mining development the "new fur trade".  The "new fur trade" will continue or increase the severity of the same disastrous effects of the "old fur trade" if the Indian Act remains in place.  The "new fur trade" will allow the federal and provincial governments of Canada to continue colonizing and oppressing First Nations and stealing our resources.  The status quo will remain.

The "baby step" approach into assimilation that is being implemented by the oppressive "National Chief" is not improving (it never will) the socio-economic conditions in our communities.  What we need is some action that will create major change.  We need major change! 

The Indian Act has to be repealed and the governance structure of the AFN needs major reform.  We are not allowed to participate in decision-making or vote in the elections for the Executive Committee of the AFN.  The "National Chief" is putting our sovereign rights to bed in exchange for senate/commission/tribunal appointments, big tax-free salaries, and dinners/pictures with the Prime Minister and foreign diplomats. 

The Prime Minister parades the "National Chief" around government events as Canada's token Aboriginal and the "National Chief" reciprocates with passion.  The "National Chief" dresses up in his traditional regalia and he dances and sings to the colonizers as a show of his "Indigeneity".  The "National Chief" puts on a show and pretends that we have a "reconciled" relationship with the federal government of Canada.  It is disgusting to watch these unethical and racist events unfold in 2011, especially on national television, when we all know that the federal government is still oppressing us through its racist policies designed by the incompetent and dysfunctional Department of Indian Affairs.  The "National Chief" of the AFN has become the "New Colonizer" of the "new fur trade".

We will not fall apart if the Indian Act is repealed.  The federal and provincial governments will still have fiduciary obligations to us pursuant to section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867, section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and most importantly, the Treaties.  We do not need the Indian Act.  It has to be repealed and NOT REPLACED.  We have to reform our own governance structures.  If we don't, the federal government will do it for us.  Trust me, governance reform is coming whether we like it or not.  We can either do it ourselves or let the federal government do it for us. Take your pick!

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This blog is not meant to contain legal advice.  Please seek legal advice as it pertains to your community.