The “monitoring”, as you've mentioned, refers to general environmental public health factors on anything from potential foreign-born contamination to things called turbidity, which are things in the water....
There are two sets of environmental public health officers: ones who are employed by either communities or tribal councils, and then others who are supported by the first nations and Inuit health branch as part of Indigenous Services Canada. That test is happening.
The testing locations can vary greatly. I would say that, in many remote contexts, those samples are sent to southern facilities for testing for environmental public health factors. The ones south of 60 or in Canada along the U.S. border have been more proximate to first nations.
This is about the funding framework. It would consider the monitoring of those needs. It doesn't consider capital or the creation of new environmental health establishments as part of that review. It's more about whether the monitoring—and the quality of that monitoring relative to the standards and laws that first nations have put in place, whether it be Canada's drinking water guidelines or above and beyond those—is happening. Are those costs accounted for, and are they being monitored on a frequent and appropriate basis?