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GIMLI, Man. — A Manitoba hotel is being forced to close and dozens of flood evacuees are being evicted over $3-million in unpaid bills.

Mike Bruneau, owner of Misty Lake Lodge in Gimli, says neither the federal government nor the organization designated to care for long-term evacuees has come up with the money.

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Bruneau’s lodge has housed about 65 aboriginal people displaced by the 2011 spring flood. But now, after talking to his bank, Bruneau says he has no choice but to close down in September because he hasn’t been paid in months.

The Manitoba Association of Native Firefighters has been given millions to care for evacuees, but the group hasn’t paid him since he accused it publicly of squandering money, Bruneau said. The federal government hasn’t paid him either, despite repeated phone calls, he said.

“I wake up in the middle of the night thinking this is a nightmare,” the lodge owner said Monday. “How can the government have their people staying in my hotel for this long and — never mind not pay me — not even talk to me and tell me when I might get paid?”