The Attawapiskat First Nation of Ontario ordered a third-party manager that was hired by the Canadian government to leave the reserve on Monday.

Jacques Marion, from the accounting and consulting firm BDO Canada, and government officials showed up to the band offices but Chief Theresa Spence said they weren't welcome. "I told them to leave the community because we know that a third party will not work for us and it will do more damage," she told Postmedia News.

Marion left but remains in charge of the band's finances. He was appointed after the First Nation made an appeal through the media to address woeful housing conditions on the reserve.

"We stand with Chief Theresa Spence as the story of her community has unfolded in front of the whole nation,” Chief Shawn Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations said on Monday, the Canadian Press reported.

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Attawapiskat kicks out federally appointed third-party manager (Postmedia News 12/5)
National chief says he stands with Attawapiskat in housing crisis (CP 12/5)
AFN chief decries ‘punitive, unilateral action’ in Attawapiskat (CP 126)
Consultant in Attawapiskat unacceptable: grand chief (CTV 12/6)
Ex-PM links Attawapiskat crisis to failed Kelowna accord (CBC 12/6)

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