Mr. Chairman, I'm going to share my time with Mr. Ouellet.
I understand Mr. McGuinty's questions, but we have to be careful when we talk about a national water law and suggest that certain disasters might not occur if the federal government decided to create a federal law. The evidence is that the federal government's responsibility for drinking water quality in penitentiaries in Quebec is a lamentable failure.
You have to be quite careful when you say it would be preferable for the federal government to be responsible for evaluating water quality in the provinces and territories.
On page 22, you say this:
The cause was lead from the facilities' aging water distribution systems and not the municipal water supply to which they were connected.
Am I to understand that the problem was not water quality, but rather aging federal infrastructure? If prisoners were drinking poor quality water that didn't meet the standards for lead concentrations, it wasn't because the water supply and quality control systems put in place at the source by the municipalities, which are responsible to the provinces, were obsolete, but rather because the federal infrastructure was. Is that what I am to understand from your report?