Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) says it has received requests from The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) about a controversial audit report, and will be sharing some information with FSIN ‘as soon as possible’.

The federal forensic audit of FSIN — an organization representing 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan — deemed tens of millions of dollars in transactions as ‘questionable’, with a major focus on COVID-19 expenses and funding received by the federation between April 2020 and March 2023.

In a statement earlier this week, FSIN said it has given its full cooperation to the audit process, but that ISC — which ordered the audit after alleged lack of transparency over the federation’s expenditures — had not responded to requests for the full report.

An ISC spokesp

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