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Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say | CBC News

Canada has no legal obligation to provide First Nations with clean water, lawyers say | CBC News

Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation.

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