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View Tamara Jansen Profile
CPC (BC)
First I want to say thank you very much to all the witnesses. It's been very eye-opening. I very much appreciate all of your testimony.
I was reading a newspaper article from CBC that said that some members of the military were being deployed to predominantly indigenous northern fly-in communities, and it said that they would be making clean drinking water available.
I was wondering, Ms. Gideon, whether it is that easy. Do we have to have COVID-19 to get clean drinking water to those communities?
Valerie Gideon
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Valerie Gideon
2020-04-21 15:46
I apologize. I don't have any specific information about any requests for assistance relating to drinking water, but our department wouldn't necessarily see all of the requests for assistance. Those would be submitted through provincial or territorial governments.
I do apologize, but I do not have the specifics on that front.
Valerie Gideon
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Valerie Gideon
2020-04-21 15:46
I would say to you, though, that having surge water infrastructure and capacity are things that communities are submitting requests to our department for as part of the COVID-19—
View Tamara Jansen Profile
CPC (BC)
Sorry, I have a really short time. My apologies.
I have a question for Jocelyn Formsma, and it is actually also in regard to water.
I have seen a photograph of 24 bottles of water for $100, and I hear that a bag of flour sells for $100 as well up there, and I'm just wondering if that is normal. Are those normal costs up there?
Can you speak to that, Ms. Formsma?
Jocelyn Formsma
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Jocelyn Formsma
2020-04-21 15:47
Are you referring to costs in the territories?
Jocelyn Formsma
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Jocelyn Formsma
2020-04-21 15:47
I might not be the best person.
We're looking at friendship centres all across. Perhaps in the northern territories that might be the case, but the folks from ITK might be better able to speak to those matters.
Jerry Daniels
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Jerry Daniels
2020-04-21 15:48
On the topic of water infrastructure, we have had huge problems with the water infrastructure process, and I think there's a very big conflict happening within the regional office on this issue. We've had examples of infrastructure development that cost almost $2 million over what could have been utilized. Skownan has an example of this. Just down the road in Waterhen, they had a water treatment plant that was award-winning. It took water from the lake, while the one in Skownan took water from the ground, because it was a state-of-the-art membrane system. It cost $2 million more, and to this day it hasn't worked.
That's a clear example of where the regional office has failed when it comes to providing water for our communities.
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