Manitoba grand chief says $85.5M settlement for flood damage is fair

WINNIPEG - The grand chief of the Meeting of Manitoba Chiefs says the most recent courtroom settlement for property homeowners affected by devastating flooding greater than a decade in the past is honest.

The Manitoba authorities diverted water from the Assiniboine River to cut back the danger of flooding in Winnipeg in 2011, however the water constructed up and prompted harm on the shores of Lake Manitoba.

Final week, courts accepted an $85.5 million settlement settlement for anybody who had companies or owned private property like cabins — excluding First Nation reserves — that was flooded.

The courts accepted a separate $90-million payout three years in the past for members of 4 First Nations that had been flooded out.

Some communities had been unable to ever return.

Grand Chief Arlen Dumas says the province should pay for what he known as its negligence, and provides the results of the flooding are nonetheless being felt.

Dumas is urging the province to carry talks with Indigenous communities to hurry up building of outlet channels to stop future flooding.