Suggested information to include in a cover letter accompanying any funding request.

CANADA’S COMMITMENT

The First Nations Clean Water Settlement Agreement (the “Settlement”) requires Canada to make all reasonable efforts to ensure that Individual Class Members living on reserves have regular access to drinking water in their homes, whether from a public water system (like a water treatment plant), or from a private water system (like a well or cistern) approved by a BCR.

This “regular access” must be of a nature and quantity sufficient to permit all usual and necessary uses of water in a similarly situated Canadian home, including but not limited to drinking water, bathing and personal hygiene, food preparation and dishwashing, sanitation, and laundry.

The water must meet either the federal requirements or provincial standards over water quality, whichever is stricter.

To meet this commitment – regular access to clean water in quality and quantity enough for everyday use – Canada is required to fund the upgrade, construction, and operation and maintenance of water and wastewater infrastructure by providing actual cost funding (the “Commitment”).

To meet this Commitment, Canada must spend at least $6 billion dollars between now and March 31, 2030. $6 billion dollars is the floor, not the ceiling. If more is required to meet the Commitment, more funding must be made available.

The enclosed funding request is being submitted in accordance with and pursuant to the terms of the Settlement and we fully expect Canada, when responding to this request, to meet its Commitment in the Settlement.