Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both of our sets of witnesses for being here today. I really appreciated your testimony.
I wanted to address a comment that you made earlier, Mr. Devlin, about resources, and specifically that they have to be allocated. I was hoping to talk about this in the earlier panel. Were you there for that? Yes. Because there was so much talk about inadequate resources, I looked up what the federal government has invested since 2006 in first nation water and wastewater infrastructure. As a global figure it's $2.5 billion. In April 2008 the government announced $330 million, a two-year investment in a first nations water and wastewater action plan, as well as $193 million over two years for the completion of projects related to infrastructure. Ongoing annual departmental A-base investments of $197.5 million, that's annual. In budget 2010, the first nations water and wastewater action plan was extended for two more years to an additional $330 million. There's probably more; that's all I could find.
There's a commitment as well, within the development of the regulatory framework, to add to that, knowing that the way a legislation is developed will have to provide for additional capacity on reserves to provide this safe drinking water. I don't know if you heard the Chief Rose Laboucan talk about the fact that there was a $6-million plant investment made on her reserve and that it's not working well enough. I guess my question to you is, when you're talking about adequate resources, is there anything more this government could be doing?