Madam Chair, I'm not sure whether my brief comments will relate to my colleague's motion or not.
On May 8, the Ottawa Citizen reported, “The almost 1,000 federal workers at the former Nortel campus on Carling Avenue can now drink the water.” Since April 27 tests found that unacceptable levels of lead and other chemicals have been in the water.
The important part of this is the comment by the Department of National Defence reassuring employees. It says:
Short-term exposure to drinking water that contains levels slightly higher than the Health Canada guidelines for drinking water quality is not expected to have health effects since the...guidelines are based on a lifetime of exposure....
That is false.