Yes, I think so, and I think, as I mentioned, progress is being made. The further down that road we go, of course, there are more and more difficult situations to deal with.
We also know that dealing with systems in the north and in rural communities is, by definition, more expensive. You have to sometimes fly in a lot of the equipment and people. You have to deal perhaps with ground that doesn't thaw as soon as it does down here in balmy Paris, Ontario, where I live. There are all kinds of challenges, but that doesn't mean we don't need to address them.
What I would say, and I don't know whether this is true right now, is that some of the past infrastructure funding programs, as a previous witness noted, did not provide adequate support for the small and rural and northern communities. Sometimes they applied a population per capita benefit test, or sometimes they looked at the overall expenditure in relation to the size of the system. We really need to take a different approach so that the smaller systems would be helped as well.