RoseAnne Archibald has not responded to CBC's multiple requests for comment since First Nations leaders voted last Wednesday in favour of her ouster.
The former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is suing the national advocacy organization for $5 million following her dramatic ouster.RoseAnne Archibald claims the Assembly of First Nations executive committee launched a campaign to sideline and expel her as national chief in response to her attempt to bring more financial transparency into the organization.
She names the AFN, its executive committee and all the regional chiefs who sat on that committee while she was in office as respondents. Archibald denied the findings and dismissed the accusations as the product of internal resistance to her anti-corruption campaign.Her legal filing is the latest development in a long battle that threw the AFN into chaos and raised questions about how well the organization represents and advocates for more than 900,000 people living in 634 First Nations across the country.
She said they took a number of illegal steps, such as denying AFN insurance coverage for civil proceedings brought against her and refusing to allow her to retain legal counsel with AFN funds to defend herself against the actions of regional chiefs.
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