Thank you very much, Chair.
Let me say that I am very appreciative of the tone and the questions that we are hearing at this meeting. As my colleague Mr. Duncan likes to say, if it was a matter of throwing money at the problem, we could solve it. If it was a matter of setting target dates, I think we'd have something to aim at and we could get there.
However, it's a lot more complex than that, so I would like to hear from the deputy minister on some of those complexities that we're seeing, especially with small communities that sometimes only have a few hundred people. What is the government doing to support these communities in developing expertise and capacity in order to run their waste-water systems?
Chair, I will then give the remainder of my time to my good colleague Mr. Dong.