Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) is encouraging or not discouraging the membership to apply for compensation from the First Nations $8 billion drinking water settlement reached in 2021. That settlement, for the First Nations that sued the federal government, has a deadline for applications coming March 7th. The problem is anyone from Six Nations should expect they may be turned down despite the fact that the community has suffered water issues for decades. Why? SNEC wasn’t part of the lawsuit. That’s right despite being asked to join the other First Nations in 2019 the council of the day didn’t. The letter, the phone calls, the requests all went unanswered. Six Nations didn’t say yes or no. SNEC just did not respond. That is until near the end of the previous…
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