How Many Employees Does MNBC Have?

(December 17, 2024) Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) has been hiring a lot of staff since 2021, every month they add more people to the payroll, and the number of MNBC employees now is believed to be over 300, and perhaps as many as 550.

 

In the interests of responsible governance which includes accountability and transparency, here’s a few questions:

 

• How many employees do they actually have? They have not reported a number in several years. Why the big secret? Most likely because it is embarrassingly high.

 

• What do all these employees do? We don’t know because they don’t say but we do know from their job postings that they have plenty of administrative assistants, coordinators, supervisors, managers, directors and navigators running around.

 

• How much is it costing for all these staff? MNBC hasn’t posted an operational budget since April 2022 so we don’t know for sure, but in that last posted budget, staffing costs totaled $20.5 million and that was with about 120 to 150 employees, so if the number of employees has risen by even 3 times to 360 or more, that number could now be as high as $50 to $60 million per year.

 

• How much do their top senior officials make? Based on a salary grid that was approved by the MNBC Board of Directors almost two years ago the salary range for the chief executive officer is now $225,000 to $300,000 per year while the annual salary range for chief officers is from $145,000 to $225,000. MNBC currently has 5 chief officers, and then they have 4 executive directors each of whom is now in the range of $120,000 to $150,000 per year. MNBC has 4 of them, as well as at least 11 senior directors and directors who are making anywhere from $105,000 to $135,000 per year. All of these positions also come with full benefits.

 

Let’s remember that MNBC is a non-profit society.

 

BC Métis Leader and former MNBC President Clara Morin Dal Col says, “As many of our Métis Citizens in British Columbia, especially our seniors and families struggle to make ends meet, to put food on the table or a roof over their heads, or even try and find the money to purchase a Christmas gift or two for their children or grandchildren’s Christmas stockings, it is absolutely shameful that MNBC is spending millions and millions of dollars on hiring more and more staff and paying large salaries to their senior executives while so many of our Métis families are struggling.”

 

Ms. Morin Dal Col says, “MNBC has lost its way and its purpose in looking after the real needs of our people. Their Facebook posts are now more about cooking, gardening or pleas to attend information sessions than what they are actually doing to make life easier for our Métis citizens. Even when they post an announcement like the signing of an agreement with the federal government they provide zero details for the citizens.”

 

She added, “MNBC citizens are tuning out and the high level of apathy will be very evident for the by-election in January.”

 

The former MNBC President says, “Given their lack of transparency and their misplaced priorities, MNBC will be challenged by the next federal government to try and justify why they should receive the funding that they have been receiving or why they should receive any funding at all.”

 

Ms. Morin Dal Col says, “In the meantime, why are community presidents not asking questions about the millions being spent by MNBC on hiring more staff and high salaries, and these misplaced priorities? Community presidents are supposed to be representing the interests of the citizens in their respective communities, but when it comes to questioning the decisions of MNBC most of them remain silent.”

 

She says, “Citizens disgruntled with MNBC will have a new path in the very near future.”

 

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For further information:

Contact Clara Morin Dal Col

BC Métis Leader

Email: cmdalcol@gmail.com