‘No Evidence of Due Diligence’ Found in Attawapiskat Audit

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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An accounting firm tasked to audit all the finances handed over to the disturbed Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, has found out that there is little or no documentation of the millions of dollars spent by their administration.

The audit, results of which are not publicly released yet, was called by the federal government to make sure that the amount, i.e. almost $104 million, it officially granted to Attawapiskat from April 2005 to November 2011 was spent the way it should have should have been. Copy of the audit acquired by our sources reveal that the funding was granted on different occasions to be spent on housing, sewage, education and other services. Deloitte addressed in a letter sent to Chief Theresa Spence and copied to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, on Sept. 20, 2012, that the auditing firm has claimed to have completed its review of 505 transactions, out of which a complete majority of 400 lacks proper documentation.

The letter mentions that “an average of 81 per cent of files did not have adequate supporting documents and over 60 per cent had no documentation of the reason for payment.” The letter further alleges that Spence claims that there is “no evidence of due diligence on the part of Attawapiskat of funding provided by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada for housing projects and Health Canada for health-related projects.” The audit further notifies that “significant staff turnover” resulted in a “corporate memory loss” for transactions reported prior to 2010.

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