That's quite right. My only guess is that water, for so long, has been an issue that countries like the U.S. and Canada can ignore, because water is perceived as being so abundant, but now we know, from our recent experience and from learning from generations of folks who have lived without it, how deeply inequitable water access is across these places where we assumed it was abundant. We assumed that everyone who lived in Canada achieved a universal standard of access to the basic necessities of life, and now we know that's not the case.
I'm not sure why Canada hasn't taken action in the last few years to do this at a federal level, but we're behind. We need not only recognition of this right but some criteria around enforceability to give it some teeth and allow people to advocate for themselves. There's really no time like the present. Our neighbours are suffering tremendously.