Health committee  I don't have those statistics on hand, but I know, for example, that a national engineering assessment done in 2011 was the most thorough look. There are problems with it, but that's the most thorough examination we have nationwide, and it said just shy of $5 billion over 10 year

Health committee  I have something else that has to be done today and then a flight to Calgary to catch, so I'm going to have to excuse myself.

Health committee  I don't think we're that confused about what those mechanical needs are. I would agree that our resources and attention would be better focused on solving what I see as a national embarrassment. I don't understand why someone in the province of Alberta, one of the biggest wealth

Health committee  I would agree that there's some value in looking at what's being done in other OECD countries, but I'm not sure it needs to be set out in a piece of legislation. The minister and the ministry can do that. Working in a first nation context, if I'd had more time to prepare today,

Health committee  Yes, the point I would like to stress to the committee is that this comes back to what's becoming the very tired, old question of resources versus regulation. In the national engineering assessment, the expert panel on first nations drinking water, and any number of reports by th

Health committee  I'm not a water engineering expert, but I have toured first nation water plants and am currently working on several issues at Engage Canada. My simple answer to the question would be that many of the water systems on first nations, the ones that service town and village sites, a

Health committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee. As I understand it, Bill C-326 at its core simply requires the Minister of Health to conduct a review of drinking water standards in OECD countries, and to make recommendations for amending national guidelines for drinking