They Receive Millions of Dollars in Funding but Fail to Post Their Audited Financial Statements for 2024/25

(December 30, 2025) The Métis National Council (MNC) receives millions of dollars in funding from the federal government each year but they have failed to post their annual audited financial statements for the last fiscal year on their website. The last audited financials MNC posted were for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024 and they showed MNC had received $19.4 million, most of it from the Government of Canada.

 

So why haven’t they posted their annual financial statements to the end of March of 2025? Good question! These are all taxpayer dollars and public funds that they are spending. On their website they claim “As part of our policy of transparency, the Métis National Council provides its yearly financial statements”. MNC also has not yet posted their annual activity report for 2024-2025.

 

MNC now has only two governing members, Métis Nation Alberta and Métis Nation of Ontario, after Métis Nation – Saskatchewan and Métis Nation British Columbia both pulled out in 2024. The Manitoba Métis Federation withdrew in 2021. MNC held their annual general assembly in early December in Ottawa which is usually when an organization shares its audited financial statements with those in attendance but in a lengthy release following the AGA not a single reference was made to the audited financial statements.

 

Despite having only two governing members remaining, MNC still appears to have some involvement in federal funding matters for Métis organizations at the provincial level, so where is the accountability and transparency when it comes to its annual expenditures and activities?

 

In the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, we learned they paid out:

 

• $7.6 million in salaries (up nearly $3 million from the previous year)

• $4.4 million in professional fees (double from the previous year)

• $4.3 million for travel, accommodation, meals and facilities (up more than $1 million from the previous year) and

• $804 thousand for communication and printing (up more than 36 times from the previous year)

 

So how much did they spend to the end of March 2025 in those categories? How much is MNC paying its President Victoria Pruden? Is it more than $250,000 per year? How much did they spend on legal costs in 24/25 suing the Manitoba Métis Federation, its President David Chartrand and others – a court case that they lost in a court ruling handed down in November?

 

Red River Métis British Columbia President Clara Morin DalCol asks, “Where are the audited financial statements for the one year period ending March 31, 2025 – which was nine months ago.”

 

Ms. Morin DalCol says, “On their own website MNC claims ‘As part of our policy of transparency, the Métis National Council provides its yearly financial statements’ but yet in nine months MNC hasn’t posted their financial statements.”

 

She says, “MNC, with just two governing members left, is struggling to find a reason to exist. Hopefully the federal government will see that as well, and eliminate its funding.”

 

Métis Citizens in British Columbia deserve better representation from a Métis organization with elected directors residing right here in British Columbia. That organization is Red River Métis British Columbia. Ms. Morin DalCol – the President of Red River Métis British Columbia invites true Métis to join our grassroots organization which is focused on improving the lives of our true Métis people in British Columbia.

 

Join Red River Métis - British Columbia today, by clicking on

https://www.presidentclara.com/get-involved

   

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For further information:

Contact Clara Morin DalCol

President – Red River Métis – British Columbia

Email: cmdalcol@gmail.com