Supreme Court rules $30M is insufficient for flooded First Nation – iPolitics

Jul 16, 2021

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 8-1 that a $30-million award to the Lac Seul First Nation, located in northwestern Ontario, to cover the federal government’s intentional flooding of its reserve land in 1929 was insufficient, and has sent the case back to trial to be re-evaluted.

In doing so, the top court has also established a framework for how to compensate Indigenous groups for historic injustices suffered decades ago, or, in this case, almost a century ago.

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