Manitoba's "angry rhetoric" on a dispute with its U.S. neighbour embittered officials south of the border and made for a "terribly strained" relationship, American diplomatic documents released through WikiLeaks suggest.
The documents shed new light on the longstanding spat between Canada and the U.S. over Devils Lake in North Dakota, calling it a "prime example of failed diplomacy."..
The lake in North Dakota has no natural outlet, and for years state officials wanted to give its citizens relief from flooding by sending Devils Lake water into Manitoba’s watershed via the Red River.
North Dakota spent millions constructing an outlet to re-route the water and, despite years of political protests and court challenges by Manitoba and Canada, pumps were switched on in August 2005, redirecting floodwater into the Sheyenne River, then the Red River and, ultimately, into Lake Winnipeg. Manitoba had argued pollution and harmful foreign species would be introduced into Canadian waterways from Devils Lake.
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