Thank you. It's terrible to hear that.
I want to acknowledge that the TCN is also part of the court case that will be at the Supreme Court next week, along with the Shamattawa First Nation and 58 other first nations. In your current case over the Liberal government's failure to provide clean drinking water to first nations, we know that government lawyers are arguing that first nations don't have an inherent right to clean drinking water. They're also arguing that, when ministers in this government say things like, “The lack of clean drinking water for first nations is unacceptable,” it's just, as one lawyer put it to me, “political theatre and not something that should be taken seriously.”
When it comes to commitments made by ministers in an election campaign, in Parliament or in press conferences to deliver clean drinking water, government lawyers are arguing they are not actual commitments to first nations.
Based on your experience fighting the federal government in court on clean drinking water, do you take its commitments to deliver clean drinking water to all first nations seriously, given what the TCN has gone through?