Agreed.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We conduct regular monitoring at approximately 80 sites. Of these, 40 sites are part of the Northwest Territories community-based monitoring program near 21 communities, and there's also sampling of trans-boundary waterways on the Slave, Hay, Liard, and Peel Rivers. There are 38 sites for the community-based monitoring network. There's 26 sites for our North Slave water quality network. And the South Slave water quality network, there's ten sites. And then the trans-boundary river network one, there's four sites.

We also, through our trans-boundary agreement, have access to monitoring information that Environment Canada collects and that is collected by Alberta Environment and Parks, and we're able to access that as an early warning system for information coming towards the Northwest Territories on water quality. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Many of the water quality stations that the GNWT supports are not done in the wintertime but the ones that the federal government does are. And the only time that they're not sampled is when the ice is not safe for folks to go on. The GNWT, in situations where there are concerns about water quality, will work with communities. For example, what's happening in Fort Smith right now, where we're using the drinking water and to take additional sampling under ice, but there are challenges with ice safety. So in the late spring and in the fall before the ice is safe is the only time that those federal stations are not monitored to my understandings. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So the Members of the Mackenzie River basin board, there's Indigenous members and government members from each of the governments that are within the Mackenzie River basin. So Yukon, Northwest Territories, BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, as well as the federal government. And then there's Indigenous representatives from those areas as well.

For the Northwest Territories, we have an Indigenous steering committee for the water stewardship strategy. They use criteria to select one of their members to participate on that board because then they come back, and they communicate with the Indigenous steering committee. And right now it's Leon Andrew of the Sahtu. Thank you, Madam Chair.