Metis citizens are once again calling on their leaders to get down to business.
At this weekend’s Annual General Assembly, a deal was struck that would see Provincial Metis Council members finally get together for a very short meeting.
The PMC hasn’t met since last November.
The upcoming meeting, for which a date hasn’t been set, will be to ratify a motion made to hold a Metis Nation Legislative Assembly on December 10th, when constitutional reform will be on the agenda.
MNS President Robert Doucette says amendments will be proposed that would give more power to regular Metis citizens.
As an example of this he says they might look at a way to deal with politicians who aren’t doing their job.
“There’s pros and cons to that. You can’t be recalling a politician every time you don’t like him or her. But on the other hand if they’re not doing the job they were elected to do then the people should have an opportunity to tell that person, and that person should listen, and they should remediate their behaviour and learn how to work on behalf of people.”
Metis citizens also called on their leaders to ratify an election date of May 30th, 2012.
The call for constitutional reform was echoed by former MNS president, Jim Sinclair, who was invited to speak at the AGA.
He told citizens they can’t blame the executive because it derives its power from the people.
Sinclair also said he felt sorry for the mayor of Pinehouse.
That’s because the assembly passed a motion in support of banning the transportation and storage of nuclear waste.
Pinehouse is one of the communities in discussions with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to be considered as a potential storage cite.