I don't have those statistics on hand, but I know, for example, that a national engineering assessment done in 2011 was the most thorough look. There are problems with it, but that's the most thorough examination we have nationwide, and it said just shy of $5 billion over 10 years is needed.
We had maybe $330 million under the Harper government. I'm not sure what the amount has been under Prime Minister Trudeau's watch.
That need has not been filled. The other elephant in the room that nobody is talking about is that when you speak of boil water advisories, that's first nations water treatment plants. As I've said, in a lot of communities we have decentralized systems: trucking, cisterns, or water wells. Those are not monitored in the same fashion as drinking water treatment facilities, so we really don't know how many people turn on the tap in those homes and face risk to their health.
There is another looming problem that's not addressed by the current initiative even if it's being funded properly. The Neegan Burnside national assessment found—I'm basing this on memory here—that about 60% to 65% of first nations drinking water systems across the country were classified as medium risk. That means they need an investment of funds for proper operation or maintenance and eventual replacement of them. So we have this bulge in the snake coming. We might be dealing with boil water communities right now, but we have this looming infrastructure bulge in the snake coming that really needs billions of dollars to address, and it's only going to get worse as it's neglected.