I think it's mainly budgetary. I'd like to think that it's not intentional, and there may be some capacity and remoteness issues involved that may affect the cost in certain areas. However, that doesn't speak to first nations who are not remote and don't have any treatment facilities either. For instance, one of our communities, the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, has the fourth-largest membership of first nations within Ontario, with just over 9,000 members. Their community did not have water treatment facility until quite recently, and thankfully they were recently approved for a water tower and a distribution system, in terms of waterlines.
Previously most of the residents were on a well system. Because of the algae problem within Lake Erie—they had a lot of blue algae coming in due to the flooding and climate change, flooding the wells making the water undrinkable—they had to shut a lot of their wells down.
It's pretty endemic across Canada. I'd like to think that it's not an intentional thing, but we do view it as a basic human right, as an indicator of good public health, and that we are just as deserving of clean water as anybody else. I'm hoping it's not intentional. I'm thinking it probably is more a budgetary matter, but I can't think of any other place where a significant portion of the population, based solely on their ancestry, would be denied the proper funds to do this public function of ensuring clean drinking water.