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Oh the irony 🤦🏾‍♀️ My latest is out via Indigenous Insider: Here is your audit, Smith. Audit the $315 billion in royalties collected from treaty territories whose owners received zero percent of it. Audit the 57 years of oil sands production in Treaty 8 territory — on land the federal government knew contained oil when they signed that treaty in 1899. Audit the 21 years First Nations were legally prohibited from hiring lawyers while governments wrote the laws that stripped their resources. Audit Fort Chipewyan, where Alberta collected $50 million a month from the Kearl mine while a toxic spill went unreported to downstream Indigenous communities for nine months. Audit the First Nations Development Fund, where Alberta takes 30% of casino revenue generated on reserve land, funnels it into general provincial programs, and calls it generosity toward the people who generated it. Audit the consultation capacity funding — $85,000 to $125,000 per community — handed to nations expected to meaningfully participate in a regulatory regime overseeing billions of dollars of extraction from their territories. Audit the Natural Resources Transfer Act itself: a constitutional instrument written in 1930, without First Nations’ consent, without their lawyers, without their knowledge of its full implications, and without a single clause guaranteeing them a share of the wealth buried in their own land. That is the accountability that matters here. open.substack.com/pub/indige…