Canada is playing legal hardball with First Nations over water

Indigenous Services Canada says it provided Ermineskin with $12.9 million in capital investments for water and $12.1 million in operational and maintenance funding between 2004 and 2025. Lawyer Clayton Leonard, who represents western First Nations including Ermineskin, said the operations and maintenance funding goes toward a treatment plant that serves, in often inadequate amounts, about 30 per cent of the community.