Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu hopes Canada will be able to lift its remaining long-term drinking water advisories by 2025 -- the year a deal between the NDP and the Liberal government is set to expire.
Hajdu has declined to put a firm deadline on the commitment since coming into the role last fall, saying there are many technical challenges with the task.
"Listen, I would hope so. It was a commitment that the Prime Minister made in 2015. I know that people were disappointed that we weren't able to lift them all, and I was disappointed, too," she said in a recent interview with The Canadian Press. Ensuring every First Nation has clean tap water is regarded as a crucial part of achieving reconciliation.Around 200 Indigenous delegates who travelled to Rome heard Pope Francis apologize on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in operating residential schools, where thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their families and suffered abuse.
When it comes to eliminating long-term drinking water advisories, Hajdu says she has a plan to contact every chief in the 34 communities that are under such a notice, adding each has a work plan."It isn't an issue of money," she says, but rather one of logistics that vary depending on a community's remoteness and its infrastructure, which can slow work down.
The national advocacy organization says an additional $16 billion is needed to deal with growing populations.
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