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Firm that fixed Kashechewan homes says feds still owe $3.6 million

THUNDER BAY -- A local firm wants the federal government to pay up for a $3.6 million job done more than two years ago. Bur-met Northern spent five months in Kasechewan First Nation restoring and repairing nearly 40 homes after a 2013 flood.
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Bur-met lawyer Brian MacIvor. (Jamie Smith, tbnewswatch.com)

THUNDER BAY -- A local firm wants the federal government to pay up for a $3.6 million job done more than two years ago.

Bur-met Northern spent five months in Kasechewan First Nation restoring and repairing nearly 40 homes after a 2013 flood.

The company says Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada oversaw the entire project, including monitoring monthly invoices.

But when it came time to collect the $3.6 million, which the company estimates was nearly half of its revenue for that year, the federal government said that the community itself was responsible for payment.

"It seems to be a rather odd response," Bur-met's lawyer Brian MacIvor said.

"The difficultly in this instance is the extent of the management does not seem to extend to the payment for the services. They will manage, they will oversee they will approve, they will review the project itself."

The company sued the federal government in January but MacIvor thinks it could take up to two years for the matter to be resolved.

"They have other things they'd like to do, not chasing the federal government for money," he said.

 

 




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