Pressure mounts to build road for Shoal Lake 40 First Nation – CBC
Jun 24, 2015
Provinces, Winnipeg petition Aboriginal Affairs for funding to connect First Nation to outside world
Pressure is growing on the federal government to help fund construction of a road for a reserve that is under one of Canada’s longest boil-water advisories.
Manitoba, Ontario and the City of Winnipeg have sent letters to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt urging the Conservatives to chip in $10 million needed to connect Shoal Lake 40 First Nation with the outside world.
The First Nation straddles the Ontario-Manitoba boundary and was carved off from the mainland a century ago to build an aqueduct that supplies fresh water to Winnipeg. The reserve has no all-weather road and has been under a boil-water advisory for 17 years.
