I would agree that there's some value in looking at what's being done in other OECD countries, but I'm not sure it needs to be set out in a piece of legislation. The minister and the ministry can do that.
Working in a first nation context, if I'd had more time to prepare today, I could have brought you a stack of reports from the last 30 years, where we've studied the problem to death. We all know what needs to be done.
Speaking more broadly, I'll go back to source-water protection. If you're an Ontarian, there are legislated protections in place for your source water. If you're in rural Alberta, there are really none. You're responsible for your well and what uses you make on your land. There's nothing that compares to Ontario's system.
I think the role the federal government could play, if there's political will, which I'm skeptical of, is to create a national standard for provinces and territories and other levels of government. Under this standard, you'd be free to legislate source-water protection however you see fit, but it would have to meet minimum standards. This way, every Canadian—indigenous, non-indigenous, western, central Canada, Atlantic Canada—would know they are going to be living under the same standard for the protection of source water.
I think this is the only approach that's consistent with the international statements and commitments that Canada's made regarding safe drinking water being a human right. It also has relevance under the UN declaration on the right to clean water.