Thank you very much, and thank you to our witnesses for this very important discussion.
I want to begin with you, Chief Whetung-MacInnes, as a mother. We talk about safe and clean drinking water but also the right to have water that provides the dignity children are entitled to. I represent communities, and I've seen communities that are on the government's list of safe drinking water. They're on there, but they have to pump so much chlorine into the system because the pipes are old. They're dirty, because of so much organics in there that by the time the water reaches the bathtub, it damages the skin in such a way that we have children with horrific levels of black eczema all over them. I remember a beautiful young girl with incredible long hair who told me she didn't like to wash her hair because it burned her scalp.
What do we need to do to make sure that what is considered clean water is actually water that protects and gives the dignity to which mothers, children and families have an innate right?