The Fisher River has flooded out Peguis First Nation again.
Peguis First Nation has filed a $1-billion flood damages lawsuit against the federal government, the provincial government and two municipalities located upstream of the Ojibway and Cree community in Manitoba's northern Interlake.The Peguis First Nation sign is surrounded by flood waters in May 2022.
Peguis is also seeking damages caused by "breach of duty and care and negligence" in failing to prevent or remedy the 2022 flood, "which has made living conditions on the reserve land ... intolerable and which led to a wholesale evacuation," the claim states. Peguis also wants the federal government to declare it will fulfil its promise to build adequate flood protection at the reserve. The First Nation is seeking an injunction requiring Canada to build that flood protection or provide funds that will allow it to proceed, according to the statement of claim.
Peguis First Nation has struggled for more than a century to receive compensation for the lands it lost after European settlers arrived in the province.Its reserve lands once included fertile agricultural tracts at St. Peter's, along the Red River, in what's now the rural municipality of St. Clements. In 1907, the First Nation was forced to surrender that land and move to a flood-prone area of the northern Interlake.
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