It's a big issue. Our key concern is around the drinking water. Obviously, the waste water is a concern for us, or a need, but the top priority between those two is obviously the drinking water.
What we need is sustained infrastructure funds from our federal partners that are flowed to us in a way that's appropriate for our realities. When you look at building a new water treatment plant, one of the communities I represent, Whale Cove, went through what I believe was nine years of not constant but on and off again boil water advisories.
Recently we got a new water treatment plant, and it's state of the art. It was done with a component of federal funding. That federal funding was provided to us in a way that was flexible. It didn't have a ton of strings attached because it's complicated to build infrastructure in Nunavut where we only have shipping available in limited summer months. We're able to do it as a territorial government in terms of the drinking water; we just need access to the quantity of funds we need. The ballpark we need in Nunavut is about $600 million as of today.
