Winnipeg councillors to vote on $5.5M increase for Shoal Lake’s ‘Freedom Road’ – Yahoo! News

Winnipeg’s city council will have to decide on Tuesday if they’ll allocate more funds to Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s “Freedom Road” project.

The city has already committed $10 million to help create an all-season road out of the community that supplies Winnipeg with its drinking water.

The community itself has been under a boil water advisory for 18 years and needs the road so a water-treatment plant can be built.

In this year’s budget, the city announced plans to fulfil the final $6 million of its $10 million commitment to the project.