Isolated reserve under boil-water advisory to get all-weather road
Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press
Published Wednesday, December 16, 2015 4:19AM EST
WINNIPEG - Canada's new indigenous affairs minister says an isolated reserve under one of the country's longest boil-water advisories will get a much-needed lifeline to the rest of the country.
Carolyn Bennett says the federal government is committed to seeing an all-weather road built to connect the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to the mainland. The reserve on the Manitoba-Ontario boundary was cut off a century ago during construction of an aqueduct which carries fresh water to Winnipeg.
Surveyors said at the time that the land was largely uninhabited "with the exception of a few Indians."
While clean water continues to flow to the Manitoba capital, the reserve of several hundred people has been under a boil-water advisory for 18 years.
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I'm sure this is all their fault though. Damned injuns!