Absolutely, I'm not saying that.
The government procures billions of dollars every single year. We have the PBO report that is talking about spending. We're spending more. The department and ISC—which is supposed to be temporary; that's in your departmental plan and I know you know this—is a temporary department, yet it's growing. We keep having report after report of these collapses in fixing an issue that, as has been pointed out at this committee, had it happened in any single community off reserve, would have been fixed by now.
There must be something in the department that is blocking this progress. I know indigenous communities want their own say. I do recognize that. It has to be from the bottom up, not the top down.
Where is this delay? Could we be using more collaboration, where possible, with non-indigenous communities that have a municipal water system that could be connected? There has to be a blockage somewhere because this would be fixed anywhere else.