Again, I'll go back to the fact that we've spent a lot of time, effort and energy in developing our own capacities to address the needs that are being raised in our communities.
As with most first nation communities across this country, we're small, independent communities and we don't have the financial resources to be able to have all of the expertise we need. We don't all have engineers. We don't all have folks who are helping us manage our water systems. We don't have the capacity to do water monitoring and testing on an individual basis.
Over the course of time, we've developed and learned that there's strength in numbers, and buying and building capacity can be done in a number of ways. In Quebec, we've chosen to build capacity by having strong operators and training programs, so that we have qualified people in our communities.
The most important aspect of why we're so successful is that, in spite of our differences, we sit down with our regional colleagues from Indigenous Services, we look at the problems and we look at the potential solutions, including the provision of a budget and what that allocation will look like on an annual basis.
We've built up the capacities we need at the tribal council level, so we have the engineers and the expertise we need to help us build quality plants and infrastructure. Then, more importantly, we have a circuit rider program that travels around all of the communities in Quebec assessing our systems and making suggestions for improvements in terms of training and what improvements need to be done to our systems. Then, we work with our federal partners to find the funding and implement the solutions.
In fact, we have no boil water advisories in Quebec, but we do have some communities that have to have continual drinking water. It's not because of poor facilities, but because their communities are built on uranium deposits, which continue to impact their ability to have quality drinking water. In fact, I referenced my sister community of Kitigan Zibi, which is probably the only community in the province that lives the reality of not having a safe drinking water supply, but it's not because of the facilities.