Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  That is 132.

Public Accounts committee  I can explain that. If there is an issue with a water advisory in a community, the first step is that it goes to a short-term drinking water advisory in the hope that we resolve that. If it's not resolved within a 12-month period, it becomes a long-term drinking water advisory.

Public Accounts committee  The number of short-term...six and a half years ago—

Public Accounts committee  I know that we've lifted 219 since then.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I would say that the complexities are enormous. They are very different depending on what community you are working in. It could be about where the community is located in terms of the ability to even construct a long-term facility on the type of land that may be prese

Public Accounts committee  That's a great question. It's a question we ask ourselves a lot. I may turn to Nelson just to talk a little bit about our work with the communities. You are correct. We are expecting that 45% to be lifted by December and some in June and July.

Public Accounts committee  We are projecting at least one for next year, but we want to work with the others to try to see what can be done.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I don't have the bill number, but it's part of the budget implementation act.

Public Accounts committee  In terms of our intention to table before December 31, I think one of the elements that will help us achieve our target is the fact that we actually started the consultation process three years ago. We started it with the AFN, so the beginning of the work to draft the replacement

Public Accounts committee  In our settlement agreement we indicated that we would make that effort to table in the fall.

Public Accounts committee  Okay. Thank you. Mr. Chair, I think I would say that—

Public Accounts committee  For the long-term drinking water advisories, Mr. Chair, that exist now, we have 45% of those that are anticipated to be lifted by the end of this calendar year, December 2022. We have some of them where no date has been set yet as a result of the ongoing work towards the long-ter

Public Accounts committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll answer quickly. Basically, what we provided in the letter is really all the investments by category. We can now tell you how much money the department has set aside for first nations. A certain portion of our funding is allocated from year to year. If

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, I think I would say the following. These are extremely difficult issues for all of us. As we work with communities and we see the impacts of what long-term drinking water advisories have done to communities and youth and trust, they are real. They are chal