Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, colleagues, for appearing today.
I was especially pleased with the action-oriented item that the minister outlined in terms of where the department is headed and to see some action going on a number of different fronts. I'm pleased to see the kind of action that has already been taken in the few short months.
The one that interests me and that I'd like a little more information on is the water situation. If I understood correctly, Budget 2006 had $60 million and the supplementary estimates have an additional $22 million. The number of high-risk water facilities on reserves have been reduced from 193 to 131. Certainly that's excellent movement in the right direction. I think all of us on this committee have had personal interaction with people from different reserves where water is an issue. So I'm wondering if we could forecast what kind of timeline might we be able to look at until we're down to very close to zero in terms of the number of water facilities that are at risk.
Minister Prentice indicated that he was present for eight new water treatment facilities. Obviously, there's a long way to go if we have 131 more. Could you give us a bit of a timeline as to what you expect there?