Thank you Chair.
PV-4 gets at the same input from Six Nations of the Grand River, which is specifically to remove “best efforts”. We've heard from witnesses from the department that removing “best efforts” increases the responsibility of the Government of Canada to “must ensure”.
I think the interest of Six Nations of the Grand River was for any of these options that increases that responsibility. Should it be PV-4 or any of the NDP amendments that follow, the larger interest was to increase that level of responsibility, as we also heard from other first nation witnesses at this committee, with this being a real opportunity, in this legislation, for the government to ensure that safe and clean drinking water is provided.
Thank you, Chair.