Federal Tories ‘Abandoned Responsibility’ for cut off Reserve: Trudeau – APTN

July 7, 2015

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says the federal government has “abandoned its responsibility” to a First Nation cut off from the outside world and living under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada.

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, which straddles the Ontario-Manitoba boundary, was carved from the mainland to build an aqueduct to send fresh water to Winnipeg at the turn of the last century.

It has no all-weather road and has been without clean water for 17 years.

Trudeau called the situation “inexcusable” in a statement Tuesday. If elected in the fall a Liberal government would fund the road project, he said.

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