Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you again for appearing. There are a lot of interesting topics being discussed here.
I'd like to talk again about infrastructure, because it's come up so much. Specifically, I'd like to talk about waste water and water treatment infrastructure.
You have Yellowknife, Hay River and Inuvik in the Northwest Territories. In Nunavut, you have Iqaluit, Kimmirut, Pangnirtung and dozens of other smaller communities. I once hiked across Baffin Island. I flew into Pang, as they say, and then went up the Weasel River, and I was surprised to see in Pangnirtung that the waste water and water treatment was all by truck moving between each home and the plant, but my understanding is that other communities do it differently.
I understand as well that in many parts of the north, communities are exempt from the nationally regulated water and waste-water treatment standards and there have been issues with providing safe drinking water with waste-water effluent discharges and the like. In 2021, I think, in Iqaluit there was a scare about the water treatment system when it got fuel contamination in it.
What needs to be done in your communities, whether it's Hay River, Yellowknife, Inuvik, Kimmirut, Iqaluit, Pangnirtung or the other several dozen fly-in communities, to ensure that people have basic safe drinking water and that sewage effluent is managed at national standards?