Minister says Fort Chipewyan, Alta., dock is safe, but Ottawa will further assess [Video]

The federal transport minister told a House of Commons committee Thursday the land and water around the Transport Canada dock in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., is not contaminated, but says they are committed to doing another assessment of the area. 

For years, the Indigenous communities that use the dock have said the water and land was contaminated, but it wasn’t until earlier this year that concerns ramped up, when Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation found out that there was a federal assessment done in 2017, that outlined potential contaminants in the area.

The House of Commons standing committee on transport, infrastructure and communities first met to discuss this issue in October and continued this week, hearing from community leaders, a toxicologist and the minister of transport. 

On Thursday, Minister Anita Anand told the committee there is no risk to human health, based on the evidence the office has — and she’d even …