TIMELINE | A history of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation"Internal discussion acknowledged this would go higher," said Shoal Lake 40 spokesman Cuyler Cotton. "I was in Shoal Lake a few weeks ago, and I expressed my commitment to the people of Shoal Lake that we were going to get the road built," Trudeau said Friday. (CBC)When complete, Freedom Road will be a gravel, two lane, low speed, low load, provincial road with an 80 km/h speed limit. People in Shoal Lake on the Manitoba-Ontario border have been under one of the longest boil-water advisories in Canada – nearly two decades. A concept-phase early estimate for the Shoal Lake 40 Freedom Road dated Dec.1, 2015, obtained through a federal access to information request pegged the full cost at $52.47 million.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2016 22:41 UTC