Environment committee  John, maybe you could talk about the actual Canadian drinking water guidelines.

Environment committee  Yes, we monitor the guidelines on a regular basis to look at frequency and parameter lists, but the parameters we are measuring are the ones that show up in the federal-provincial-territorial guidelines, because we have to have the actual number. What we're looking at, of course,

Environment committee  We supply health services to first nations on-reserve, which means the doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, etc. These are the services we provide. In terms of the environment, we have environmental health officers who work for Health Canada, but work in close cooperation wi

Environment committee  All the water quality monitoring done on Indian reserves is done by the environmental health officers of Health Canada. That information is shared with the chief and band council. The province is not involved. If the source water is drawn off-reserve, then that source water, of

Environment committee  That's correct. The funding to build, etc., is from INAC, Indian and Northern Affairs, but the operations are part of the band council's responsibility. Health Canada then monitors the finished drinking water. So it's a cooperative arrangement.

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. As I said, the band council gets the information as soon as we do.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Fort Chip is not an Indian reserve; it has an Alberta municipal water system, so if you want information on that, you would ask them. Our understanding is that the water quality there is good. At Health Canada we indeed monitor water quality on all th