Brendan Hanley at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I want to thank all of the witnesses today for the really in-depth testimony.

Chief Beaudin, I have a couple of questions for you. I'm a public health physician, so I was interested when you brought up social determinants of health and how they relate to access to safe drinking water. Social determinants of health are things like education, employment, income and the presence of historical trauma.

Perhaps you can elaborate on how access to safe drinking water, particularly as enshrined in legislation, relates to social determinants of health in general.