Priorities for Roberts includes adding new LLRIB urban councillors, speeding up cows and plows claim
A Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) councillor since 2008, John P. Roberts believes now is the time for a change in leadership.
“I decided to run to try and make positive changes,” he said. “I think people want change in leadership and I have been a councillor for 15 years, so I sacrificed my position of councillor to run for Chief. If you want to make changes with leadership, now is the time.”
Roberts has many new ideas he’d like to propose if he’s successful in his campaign for Chief. For instance, he’d like to increase the number of councillors from the current number of 12. He noted off-reserve band members have been neglected and members living in places such as Prince Albert, Saskatoon, Pinehouse Lake and Brabant Lake should have a voice at the council table.
Roberts would also like to pressure the federal government to increase the Treaty annuity payment of $5, speed up the Teaty 6 Agricultural Benefits Specific Claim, otherwise known as cows and plows, and to build a water treatment plant in Little Red.