Tensions were high when it came to methylmercury and Muskrat Falls during question period on the one day the House of Assembly opened this summer.
PC MHA for the Torngat Mountains, Lela Evans questioned government on how they will protect people from the future risks of methylmercury to human health and the food chain.
Evans was emotional during her questioning.
She says government is supposed to protect its people, land and wildlife. Her people will be poisoned because they eat the food and the organs in the food, and over-time it accumulates, poisoning the food chain.
Lisa Dempster responded by saying it was extreme messaging that people would be poisoned, and that’s absolutely false.
The two weren’t done there, with Dempster saying if there is a concern with methylmercury in the foodchain, they may have to go out and say you cannot eat trout seven times a week, you can eat it just twice a week.
Evans says bioaccumulation in the food chain for Indigenous people that eat the food, will cause methylmercury poisoning in breast milk, organs of the children and in the parents.