By Christopher Guly ( June 19, 2019, 9:46 AM EDT) -- Two years ago, in Southwind v. Canada 2017 FC 906, the Federal Court awarded Lac Seul First Nation in northwestern Ontario $30 million in equitable compensation for breach of the federal government’s fiduciary duty after a dam — built in the township of Ear Falls in 1929 as part of a hydroelectric project to generate power across the Ontario-Manitoba border to Winnipeg — raised the water level of the lake and resulted in flooding of 17 per cent of the reserve, or 11,304 acres of land....