Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I've mentioned, that's definitely something we are working on. We did the assessment work in 2017 and 2018 on the mill site and we're continuing to do that work this coming year. As I mentioned earlier, we've been working on the assessment work in the river system since 2016 and we continue that work, and —

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're continuing to do the assessment work to identify the extent and location of the mercury.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Ten tonnes from 1963 to 1970.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  One of the provisions in the trust that has been set up and that has established a panel to make decisions on the expenditure of the funding is that the participants and members—the members include Grassy Narrows, Wabaseemoong and Ontario, and the participants are Eagle Lake, Wabauskang and Wabigoon Lake—can submit proposals to the panel for funding.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The work done since 2017-2018 on the mill site is an assessment of the soil conditions and the groundwater on the site. The results of that work have shown that elevated levels of mercury do exist in the groundwater and in the soil, and the focus for the work this year, 2019, is to determine whether the mercury that's on the site is migrating into the river.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good morning. I would like to acknowledge the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquins. Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, for inviting Ontario this morning to talk about the role of our province in addressing the mercury contamination in the English and Wabigoon rivers, and its impact on local indigenous communities.