I would disagree. As I said, St. John's, Newfoundland and Kamloops, B.C., it's the same problem across the country. In many cases, cities don't even have inventories of their own main trunk lines, never mind the household lead lines that are there.
I'm honing in on lead, specifically, because I dealt with it in Hamilton and I know exactly the problems that can be created, especially the irreversible damage done to the developing child's brain. We can't just say, “Well, let's just leave it up to the communities, and let them go to the library and see what the latest news is.” In Flint, Michigan, the U.S. government is facing a class action suit because of this: “Well, why didn't you tell us?”