You wrote Auminer: "They are using the road as leverage", Yes indeed but I prefer Funkey1's version better: "It has not even to do with common sense or distrust, plain vanilla blackmail."

And from_Sudbury: "And now....they want to know why the feds won't commit funds?"{
Long ago whiteys were accused of speaking with forked tongues, well today that label still applies only it is on the other foot.

Auminer: "That is not so difficult to understand is it?"
Crystal clear but politicians lack the backbone to call a spade a spade.
It is blackmail to hold this development back until all or most of their desires are fullfiled which in turn seem to have no bounds.
They should be self sufficient with governments involved merely with providing the basic infrastructures.

Matawa wants to be treated as one whole community and not just Webequie with one or two others nearest the Ring. I say most of the Matawa members have got nothing to do with the Ring and if they get a road near them or a few of them get jobs due to the Ring then that is all they are entitled to. We are naive for letting them blackmail us.

Give an inch and they will take a mile. No blame for trying but there are reasonable limits.