An Ontario company that was asked to leave a First Nation reserve in 2019 after delays involving a multimillion-dollar water treatment project will receive $1.9 million to settle a legal claim, according to documents.
The documents show that the $1.9 million was provided to resolve a legal claim launched by the company over its cancelled contract and will be paid out of federal funds from the $16.44-million budget for the water treatment project approved by federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller.
This is nearly twice the original estimated cost of the project of $8.8 million from July 2017.
Kingdom Construction was hired in 2017 to work on the upgrades to the community’s water treatment plant, originally constructed in 1993. The original completion date was May 2018. In February 2019, after more than eight months of delays, the community terminated its contract with the company.
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