Mr. Nelson Barbosa at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

Thanks. It's a great question.

I'll take it back to some of the iterative drafting that this committee has considered, including the consultation process.

What clause 31 talks about in strong terms is the comparability. The last part of this clause, which I actually didn't read, was:

so that First Nation persons are able to receive water services comparable to those received by persons in non-Indigenous communities.

That is language that was added as part of the consultation process on this bill, and it was iterative across the drafting. In my opinion, it's what makes clause 31 stand out.