a woman who admitted to defrauding organizations by claiming her twin daughters were innuit was sentenced to a federal prison today the judge imposing a sentence even more severe than what the crown was asking here’s ctv’s Heather Wright today Karima Mani was sentenced to three years in prison for saying that her daughters were Inuit a lie the judge called a crime against every single Inuit in Nuna it diminishes the idea of inness of our Inu identity by aluki KARK is the president of nun Incorporated the organization that handles land claims and treaty negotiations manie fraudulently claimed her daughters amyra and Nadia Gill were adopted from an innu mother in order to access land claim funds and get an ID card as in we know that being inuk is much more than holding an Niti card it’s our relationship through our families the kinship our community our language our culture the two sisters were also awarded grants and scholarships to ATT Queens University that were only available to innuit students manie has paid back 130,000 of the $158,000 her daughters received as part of the plea deal the fraud charges against the Gil sisters were dropped there were indigenous students who didn’t get scholarships because these students did there were uh young people who didn’t get jobs or positions or admission to University programs because these students did so this this is not victimless well indigenous identity fraud is not new there are concerns it is growing leaders say this sentence sends an important message there’s a consequence to trying to take our identity I think that that’s important that that this is a precedent setting precedent setting and perhaps a first as convictions for indigenous identity fraud are rare Heather W CTV News Toronto
A woman who falsely claimed her daughters were Inuit has been sentenced to prison. Heather Wright reports.
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Ouch, must have money involved. A settlement of money with future payments for life if she succeeded.
Rather than sentence, canada should work on equality why canadians are treated differently, then others
maybe our system has issues too ?
She is stupid enough to believe that her daughters look like inuit.
This mean I can't identify as a Caterpillar 336C excavator anymore?