The Kanesatake Health Center usually takes care of the drinking water. They take water samples every other month, I believe. It could be more than that. Usually the drinking water comes back satisfactory. That's the main response that every community member receives.
They have the opportunity to go further than that to do a deeper analysis of our drinking water, but I don't think too many members want to do that. It takes only a short matter of time. It takes, I believe, two weeks to get that extra analysis done. I did that, and the drinking water at my house showed a higher percentage of magnesium, I believe it was. They said it's normal to have that in drinking water that is coming from a well.
In all of Kanesatake, because we do not have an aqueduct system—we're all on wells—we're worried about that. As I said, we have three creeks running through the G&R site, which run into the Lake of Two Mountains. Some of our membership, like Mr. Cross here, live less than a kilometre away from that site.
One of the gentlemen was speaking earlier about water and how contaminants sit on top of the soil and seep into the earth and go into the water tables and then into our drinking water. Well, that's exactly what's going on in Kanesatake. We don't have the funding to do complete analyses or tests or assessments, so we don't know how deep this has gone. We do know that it is contaminated, through other assessments we've had through Health Canada and the T. Harris company. Right now, those assessments could go even further if my council—which just last night was voted out in a vote of non-confidence—would stop holding this land transfer hostage. Then the federal government would move forward with the right process and full funding to have that land assessed properly and remediated.