Thank you.
I've met with Peguis First Nation leaders now a number of times to hear about the work they were doing to restore the capacity for community members to come home after—as you pointed out—a very long time away from the community. Then, of course, they were hit with yet another catastrophic flood this spring, and even more people are now displaced.
My heart goes out to Peguis, to the people of Peguis and to the leaders who are struggling just to get their feet under them in an area that is prone to flooding with a repeat occurrence like that. It has to be demoralizing as you see progress in getting people home and then have the rug pulled out from under your feet.
We have a new memorandum of understanding with Peguis about how to move forward, including some of the prevention work that the Auditor General is speaking about, as well as a plan to rebuild. There are many difficult decisions ahead for Peguis in terms of how that will look and whether or not there is a viable future in some parts of Peguis, given the propensity to flood.
These are the horrible decisions that first nations are staring at every single day in some communities that are being increasingly threatened by unpredictable weather—in this case, flooding, a result of Peguis's being placed in a flood plain. We will do that work together.
Joanne, perhaps you can speak about where we're at.