After multiple follow-up requests, 16X9 received a response from AANDC on the eve before our story was slated to air.

Many of Canada’s First Nations communities are still without what the United Nations considers a basic human right: access to clean drinking water.

The solution to ‘closing the gap’ to bring First Nations up to standard with the rest of Canada, is to remove an old austerity measure placed on First Nations during the recession of the 1990s.