Not sure why the chief is all excited about voting. The AFN doesn't really allow Aboriginals to vote. It could be easy using the band list, but not everyone is wanted. Those, the majority of Aboriginals, that have been disenfranchised by the AFN aren't wanted. So, no voting notices or even an acknowledgement of the right for every Aboriginal to vote for the AFN representatives. The AFN, now a political party after making agreements with the Liberal and NDP federal parties through their AFN INM faction, really doesn't believe in democracy. Like provinces during confederation, the AFN does more political elite party appointing, like provincial premiers with whom the AFN has made many lands and seas grants. If the AFN had a vote it would be considered equity in the Canadian Parliamentary system. No real vote. Like a premier who taxes and spends the citizenry at the parties behest or their own strange predilections or agendas - something to which the AFN can attest. The AFN and the other political parties seem happy with the arrangement. A few, elite AFN party members claiming to represent hundreds of thousands of Aboriginals who have no say in the governing or where all those hundreds of million and land and seas grants go.
It's like all this was planned, like confederation. Gee, maybe it's not so confusing.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/first-nations-face-real-life-barriers-to-voting-in-next-federal-election-1.3215746
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