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Finding: Scrip scandal included Liberal politicians (1900)
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September 5, 2024

Finding: Scrip scandal included Liberal politicians (1900)

First seen in newspaper accounts in 1900, this scandal spilled into the House of Commons over the next 22 years!

The BCMF research team has uncovered further historical evidence of Liberal government corruption involving land dispossession and Métis scrip. Treaty 8 negotiators offered scrip to extinguish the title of Métis self-determined communities in British Columbia—then Liberal politicians benefitted!

Instead of revealing this hidden history of dispossession and advocating for justice, redress, and land rights for all Métis, groups like the Métis Nation BC and the MNC and MMF suppress this history and maintain land dispossession and subjugation through their hollow fast-track agreements with the current Liberal government.