Métis Nation British Columbia has removed its president following allegations of misconduct.
The Nation (MNBC) asked Wally Oppal, a former judge and politician, to conduct an independent assessment about President Walter Mineault following “serious allegations of misconduct and breach of fiduciary duty.”
During an independent investigation, lawyer Robyn Gervais found that Mineault “repeatedly utilized his position to advance familial interests over the interests of the Nation,” states Oppal’s report.
One instance details how Mineault negotiated an inflated performance fee for his brother’s band and pressured MNBC staff to hire them.
“When the CEO properly declined due to the conflict, President Mineault engaged in a 40-minute phone call where he yelled at, abused, and intimidated the CEO, threatening to publicly accuse her of bias against his family,” Oppal wrote.
On another occasion, Mineault participated in and advocated for a resolution that provided a “direct material benefit to property partially owned by his third cousin. He failed to disclose this familial relationship to the Board and applied improper, confrontational pressure to directors who questioned the resolution.”
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In another instance, Gervais found that Mineault directed a misogynistic slur at a female director and explicitly threatened to ensure her travel would never be approved again in the future. Gervais ruled the threat was in contravention of the B.C. Human Rights Code.
Gervais also found that Mineault consistently used his authority to control, punish and silence dissent.
He also attempted to remove the treasurer because they asked “too many questions” regarding the president’s expenses, according to Oppal’s report.
Gervais found that Mineault arbitrarily refused to approve board travel for dissenting directors as a way to control or punish them, he engaged in a “sustained pattern of hostility,” including berating staff, swearing at directors over the phone and publicly criticizing directors during meetings, and he breached confidentiality by posting in-camera board deliberations about a rent supplement program on his personal Facebook page.
The MNBC says that an election to replace Mineault will be called soon.
Oppal said Mineault chose not to respond to the allegations.
W Smith – It’s hard not to laugh when idiots like you are posting on here
W Smith – “He put Bill C-5 fast tracking in plaice. This is as Against the will of the Assembly” You’re so inbred you can’t even put a proper f**king sentence together 😂😂😂
W Smith – 2.5 Million white people on welfare in Canada. What a bunch of bottom feeders
Haha Sign the treaties and bow to then crown.
Mark Carney ? He put Bill C-5 fast tracking in plaice. This is as Against the will of the Assembly of FNs. You have no clue JV. Just keep laughing while this stuff is unwound.
48% of reservations residents are on welfare, so half First Nations don’t!
Mark Carney is forming a majority government right now ☺️☺️☺️
The taxpayer uprising 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Duhhh everyone pays taxes you f**king morons
you the man Doug.
I swear that this is the umpteenth article i have read about the FN misuse of funds but nothing ever gets done. Cant wait for the taxpayer uprising that is brewing.
1.3 million home owners wow. As of January 1, 2026, British Columbia’s population is estimated at approximately 5.66 million. That’s a lot of people hey Doug. That’s a lot of people that don’t give a sh1t about your few thousand dollars in property taxes that you pay every year. Right now British Columbians are coming together to vote people like you out of having any connection to politics. You are not better than anyone else because of what you own and your opinion isn’t more relevant than anyone else’s because of what you own. That would be like me going around thinking I’m better than people who rent apartments just because I own a condo. Do you even realize how stupid that sounds. Well newsflash jackass you sound 100 times more ridiculous than that.. and I’m here to call you out for it every single time 🤣🤣🤣
Doug Brekfaust – I’m crying because I’m stating basic facts about history? Aww what’s the matter you can’t fabricate what I say into some sort of fake history that you racist whiteboys tried writing into the Canadian history books? Yeah sorry we’ve already started deleting all of that bullsh1t and started replacing it with something we like to call reality. Apparently reality is your biggest fear because you lose your sh1t every time I bring it up. Oh wow you donate to candidates bla bla bla nobody cares buddy. It doesn’t mean sh1t 🤣🤣🤣 You can donate to candidates until the f**king cows come home it doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t mean anything. The fact that you think your personal life has anything to do with anything is seriously laughable on so many different levels
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JV – You are the one up here crying about the past. I can’t speak for Bob B but here is what do I do.
1) I’ll vote. 2) I donate to the campaigns for candidates who would repeal this. 3) I make sure when this conservation comes up around my friends, my kids and their friends that people stop regurgitating all the far right denials of past wrongs, that they also stop regurgitating all the far left retro-active guilt trips. I make sure to tell them that you/your kids, just like me did nothing wrong!
4) I make sure they ask themselves what closure and acceptance of T&R would be like and what that means for them and their future and future opportunities too. ( hinting that in a world of “it’s me or you” it’s sometimes better to be a little selfish)
5) I ask them to outline all those possibilities regarding everyone’s rights and financial obligations and expectation’s now and going forwards. I fill in gaps and always point out it’s the taxpayers who pay.
6) I am making people really think about it objectively. Which is dangerous!
That’s what I am doing it about. There are 1.3m home owners in BC. That’s alot of votes.
And you asking open ended questions like that allows us more space to put forward these questions and these ideas for more people to think about! So thanks!
Bob B – What are you going to do about it buddy? Besides cry like a little b1tch? Because apparently that’s all you do around here
White people lecturing others on corruption. Oh man that’s funny 😂
Like most Chiefs, and heads should be because of the corruption in METIS ASSOC. and because of AFN (THE SEPARATISTS)!!!
LET ME GUESS ALCOHOL and DRUGS. JUST USE THE GLADUE LAW WALTER, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER YOUR NATIVE. OR TELL EVERYONE HOW NATIVES ARE SO HARD DONE BY. REMEMBER
Oh now there is the biggest red flag of all. JV quote “ It’s none of your f**king business how the money is used” . Ohh my my my. This is apparently a very sore spot now isn’t it. I wonder what they are hiding?
That literally proves my point in one statement about the misuse of taxpayers funding.
JV: On most reserves and Metis settlements there is corruption and misconduct. I know from 40 years experience. – there are exceptions, and it is improving. However…
The money that is redirected is Canada taxpayers, so yes, it is our business. – How our money is spent, and the corruption. Maybe if less money was given, there would be less corruption.
I dare you to show just how much money you think was earned/taxed/raised by the Metis, and how much was given by industry as bribes, or by the Liberals for votes. (and how much was owed as part of treaties – $0.00)
Bob B – No it’s not. Nobody cares about what you have to say. Your weak generalizations prove how ignorant and uneducated you really are. It’s none of your f**king business how the money is used there Bob
It’s happening on every reserve. Why do you think the leaders and chiefs refuse to open the books and records for audit. Absolutely ever other entity in the country that receives gov’t funds has to be fully transparent about how that money is used.
Everyone except of friends in the First Nations.
Is this type of so-called misconduct Exist Elsewhere maybe it should be investigated or are you just too weak and Afraid and cowardly. That’s corruption not misconduct those are sweet little words you use misconduct no it’s corruption I wonder how much money has been corrupted. How far does this go does this go to other bands or leaders or whoever must be investigated we’re all the taxpayer money is going