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Fontaine gets whopping raise while AFN cuts corners By Lynda Powless, Editor A $40,000 a year raise for Assembly of First Nations (AFN) leader Phil Fontaine is "ridiculous" says a Six Nations Councillor who says "there's no way only 30 chiefs should be allowed to do that (approve a raise)." Councillor David Green said he couldn't believe Fontaine was getting on almost 50 per cent increase in his salary that was bumped up from $85,000 to $125,000 at the end of an assembly meeting in Toronto last week. "Can you image what the rest of that staff up there must be getting. Hell, we'd catch it down here if we even raised our honorariums by $10 a meeting. What's he doing!" The Assembly of First Nations, which represents Canada's Indian chiefs, voted last week to raise (Continued on page 2)