I agree that they're not mutually exclusive at all. Yes, we need to make the investments in first nations water systems that will eliminate boil water advisories. Typically, when you're looking at boil water advisories in first nations, you're not dealing with the long-term contaminants that are low risk. You're dealing with the contaminants that can cause sickness very quickly and they tend to be microbial contaminants, of course, so they're not mutually exclusive at all. To Dr. Hrudey's analogy, yes, if I'm going to fly in a plane, I want the best pilot, but I also want the plane to have been built to the highest standards, even for those items on the plane that are maybe not essential to keeping it in the air. You know that when the audio visual system goes down, you sometimes wonder what else is wrong with the plane, so I don't think they're mutually exclusive at all.
On March 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.