Thank you very much, MP Bradford, for that question.
I would say, yes, the progress needs to be maintained. I would say that I have confidence, with a government that understands the importance of equity for first nations community functioning, in maintaining that progress. I would say that the work we're doing on co-development of first nations drinking water legislation to replace the repealed Harper-era legislation will also be a piece of the puzzle to maintain the ingredients that are necessary to support first nations in continued access to clean water.
I would say that we need to work closely with provinces, territories and municipalities to protect the source water, as Mr. Barbosa pointed out. Many times, the Government of Canada is in the very difficult position of replacing access to clean source water because of the poisoning of local water in communities. I think about Tataskweyak, for example, whose local source water has been poisoned, some say irrevocably. The work to replace Tataskweyak's access to source water is under way right now. It's the building of a water pipe 40 kilometres long to a non-contaminated freshwater source.
Those kinds of things have devastation, by the way, not just on the physical health of communities but on the emotional health. When I was in Tataskweyak, the grief that people talked about in witnessing the death of that lake and the death of the many animals that often still drink at that lake, and the lack of access for their children to be able to play in water that had been in their territory from time immemorial, was a deep and profound grief that I bore witness to, and that is not an unusual story.