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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD

Council Meetings & Updates

Update: Met with suppliers and discussed changes and suppliers to give revisions again so a decision can be maded. 

Feb 12- Musselwhite Meetings-T.Bay.

The representatives for Cat Lake were , Chief Matthew, Wilfred (elder) & Charles at this meeting.

          The main issues bought out at meeting.

• New revised agreement was signed in 2001.
• The spirit and relationship of the Musselwhite agreement with the new owner (Goldcorp) is deterioating and needs to be re-evaluated.
• The vision of the late trapper that the Musselwhite mine would help the First Nation youth  needs to be revisited.
• Signatories need to dialogue and work on the many issues themselves.  (North Caribou, Cat Lake, Wunnumun, Kingfisher)
• A working group from the 4 signatories to be set up to work together in making an evalation and action plan
• Terms of references to be made for Working group 
• All issues will be written and given to Goldcorp as per agreement.

Mine agenda is requesting for a expediture report where the revenue sharing dollars have been used by the First Nation, We average $60,000.00 per month from the mine.The community of Cat Lake recieved a sum of  $742,408.52  revenue sharing dollars for the 2009 year. That is quite a bit of change to use for community development.

Next meeting will be March and held in Sioux Lookout

LEADERSHIP

At some point we must decide if we want our leadership to impressed or influence us. You can impress people from a distance but you must get close to influence people.  When you get close to people they can also see your flaws,but that is okay. Everyone has weaknesses and we usually deny them but admitting brings honesty. Our strengths create competition but our weaknesses create community.The most important quality for leadership is not strength or perfection but credibility. How do you build positive credibility? People must be able to see honesty in you to trust you.To overcome the corruption in our community we need honest leadership, working in unity and integrety to improve our community. We need a Band governance that fullfills these qualities to influence the young people and change the negative enviornment of Cat Lake.

 

 

 

Chief..Matthew Keewaycabow

Deputy Chief..Ellen Wesley-Ombash

Councillor..Rita Wesley

Councillor.. Abigail Wesley

Councillor..Edward Keesickquayash

 

Phone..........807-347-2100

Fax..............807-347-2116

My Favourite Websites

• K-Net
• Cat Lake Public Works
• Cat Lake Community and Youth Center

The community of Cat Lake has been going in and out of deficit for number of years now and we should make some serious plans now where we want to go in the future. We seem to be in this cycle of getting into deficit again and again over the last decade. We should seriously investigate the reasons why and make a plan the local governance can follow to get us out of this situation. It does not do us any good as a community what so ever.

 

In the book The 7  Habits of Effective People the author explains what we must do to change our ways in order to get out of bad habits that create our situations. It seems that people accept or don't care any more that we are in deficit and think it is normal. We have become so dependent over the years on Federal government dollars, welfare dollars that we accept it as normal too. This dependency and the deficit is a problem that creates a situation where people live in a state of poverty, expect  to be given money and be looked after but reality is we can't.

 

In the old days native people were independent, worked hard to survive off the land, hunting, fishing, gathering what they needed. They were not dependent on government to look after them.

 

Dependence.........Independence.........Interindependence

 

These are the steps identified. We as a community and you as a person must make decisions to move from dependence to independence and go further into interdependence.

 

Sounds very complicated but it is easy if you understand the concept.You must learn it first and once you learn you have to make that decision to move forward. There will be people, the right kind that will help you meet your goals to become independent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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