{"id":569,"date":"2012-06-07T11:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2018-01-29T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:37:57","slug":"native-friendship-centre-of-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/native-friendship-centre-of-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bike Ride across Canada for Native Friendship Centre of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gordon Bird, who is also known as Circle Dancing Eagle, is currently biking across Canada on behalf of the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal. The organization\u2019s elected vice-president left Montreal on May 23 and has now reached West Vancouver, British Columbia.*<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hoping to bring awareness to the situation that put NFCM in a very critical financial situation,\u201d said Bird, via a Facebook chat. \u201cThe doors were going to close for good at the end of June this year. That has been averted by an understanding that came from the Minister of Northern Affairs and partial funds have been reinstated. This is positive news.\u201d<\/p>\n

The status of the 38-year-old centre was jeopardized when an ongoing disagreement with the Regroupement des centres d\u2019amiti\u00e9 autochtones du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em> (RCAAQ) led to its core funding being cut.<\/p>\n

The organization responded with a $500,000 funding drive, which Bird\u2019s trip will help support. Donors receive tax receipts since the organization has held federal charitable status under the number 125109991RR0001 since 1996.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the RCAAQ is busy looking for another Aboriginal Institution to deliver youth programs in Montreal even though the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal still offers youth programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now finalizing scenarios in order to identify an institutional Aboriginal partner that will agree to sponsor the Montreal youth project,\u201d writes RCAAQ president Edith Cloutier on their website. \u201cThe RCAAQ will involve the Inter-Tribal Youth Centre of Montreal in this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The disagreement has roots in a three-year agreement between the two groups that was signed in 2007.<\/p>\n

When the agreement was due to end in 2010, the RCAAQ brought a consulting firm in to help the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal with strategic planning. They also continued funding the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal under the terms of the 2007 to 2010 agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, when you have an extension or renewal, both parties have to sign off on it and we didn\u2019t do that,\u201d said Brett Pineau, Executive Director of the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal. \u201cWe\u2019re the only centre in Quebec with a clean financial audit and we\u2019re the only one in which the executive director has an MBA. They were tying our core funding installments to dealing with a particular consulting firm with privileged relationship to the RCAAQ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Discussions remained internal to the two partners until September 15, when the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal sent a complaint to the RCAAQ\u2019s federal counterpart with a carbon copy to their then federal funder, the Department of Canadian Heritage.<\/p>\n

That letter led the board of the RCAAQ to suspend the provincial membership of the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal on September 21. It then recommended that the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) remove all core funding Montreal and distribute it among the remaining Quebec centres two months later.<\/p>\n

The Native Friendship Centre of Montreal responded with a formal complaint to the NAFC Commission in December.<\/p>\n

On February 3, Commission Chair Paul Lacerte sent a letter requesting both parties attend a Dispute Resolution Process panel.<\/p>\n

Twelve days later Pineau received a letter telling him that the RCAAQ board refused to participate. \u201cWe\u2019re still hoping that the Feds will be concerned enough that the collapse of the Dispute Resolution Mechanism will merit intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, refer to the following websites:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/nfcm.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.rcaaq.info\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com\/ur\/story\/130012<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gordon.bird3<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/performers-r-us.com\/followgord\/aboutgord.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Notes: This article appeared on p 15 of the Suburban city edition on June 6, 2012.<\/p>\n

*Gord had only reached London, Ontario when this article was first written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The organization\u2019s elected vice-president left Montreal on May 23 and has now reached West Vancouver, British Columbia.* \u201cI am hoping to bring awareness to the situation that put NFCM in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-island-report","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-9b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1258,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/leed-certified-buildings-montreal\/","url_meta":{"origin":569,"position":0},"title":"133 LEED Certified Buildings in Montreal","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"January 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The number of properties on the island of Montreal that are publicly registered as LEED projects has increased from 172 in 2012 to 258 today. 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