Mr. Chair, I have a simple comment to make.
Associating the blame for a threat to safe drinking water with the exercise of existing rights or treaty rights under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, is questionable. In fact, we know that the real threat is much more rooted in natural resource extraction initiatives, which at the end of the day, indigenous nations are not very interested in. I have my doubts about this because it suggests there could be a threat associated with the exercise of ancestral or treaty rights.
I submit that.