It's something we wouldn't take lightly, that's for sure. The letter points out that it was only shared with the Métis and the Mikisew Cree. We definitely would have shared that information with ACFN and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo considering that the RMWB is where the TC wharf is. The letter is unclear for us and is creating confusion between all of us. That's what we want to get to the bottom of also. As President Cardinal says, we would like to see these letters so we can go back and see where things were missed or what happened.
During that same time frame, our nations were in the midst of working on the agricultural “cows and plows” benefits. We were heavily focused on that. To see something that's classified as contamination raises red flags. It's something that definitely would have been dealt with right then and there. It's not something we would have let go this long.