🇨🇦 Federally-Funded Indigenous Tourism Org Implodes Over Mismanagement Claims

Three provincial Indigenous tourism boards just torched the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada over financial mismanagement and opacity, with Ontario, B.C., and Nova Scotia formally separating to build a rival national body. CEO Keith Henry laid off his entire staff, blames Ottawa for cutting funds, yet somehow expected $35 million yearly from a U.K. charity that never materialized. Small business owners still haven't received promised federal dollars that vanished through ITAC's pipeline. One founder called the collapse a great disappointment after watching the organization crumble since 2012.

This is what happens when accountability evaporates in the grant-industrial complex. Taxpayer money flows in, transparency flows out, and when the house of cards falls, the CEO stays on unpaid begging for letters of support while Indigenous entrepreneurs get stiffed. No audit trail, no consequences, just another Ottawa-funded body eating itself while real businesses starve.

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