Report
Accesibility Disclaimer
To read the electronic version of a document in PDF format, you will need to use Acrobat Reader. You can download and install the free reader from the Internet Website of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Please visit Access Adobe to help make PDF files accessible to screen reading utilities. These tools convert Adobe PDF documents into HTML or ASCII text which can then be read by a number of common screen reading programs that synthesize text as audible speech.
The HTML version of this report will be available shortly.
We are pleased to present to you our report on options for regulating water quality in First Nations communities.
We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of many individuals, organizations and communities to this report. The advice and suggestions they provided through the engagement process were very helpful in guiding us through our deliberations. We would also like to express our gratitude to the many public servants within the federal, provincial and territorial governments who assisted us.
We hope that our analysis will assist the federal government and its First Nations partners in crafting a regulatory strategy that will build on the traditional stewardship role of First Nations, both to improve water safety and to help preserve the quality of all waters in Canada.
— Harry Swain (Chair), Stan Louttit and Steve Hrudey