Thank you for the question.
With respect to the treaty rights of first nations, again this comes back to protection zones.
We understand that the bill does not at this time have a definition of “protection zones”, so one of the amendments that the Assembly of First Nations is putting forward is the beginnings of a definition for protection zones that would include both the traditional territory and the treaty territory of first nations when source waters flow from those territories to first nation lands.
Also, of course, there is an inherent and treaty right for first nations to protect the source waters in those territories, and our amendment would reflect that.