It's not a health issue anymore for me, for the Centers for Disease Control, or for Health Canada. It's not an issue. We don't have it. It's bad—please. So what do you get to? You get to infrastructure. Where is the lead coming into these homes? It's through the infrastructure. What's the infrastructure committee able to do about it? Well, we're not sure. It's a municipal issue, for the most part, but it was federally regulated at one time, and there is federal money available to fix infrastructure. Can we marry the two and come out with a program where we can say, as parliamentarians, that there is a problem in our country and we invite municipalities, provinces, and so on to access federal funds in a meaningful way? The loan program is phenomenal, in the Hamilton experience, because we do 500 to 1,000 lead pipe removals a year, and the money gets paid back. It will take 25 years, but we'll eventually get them all, if we want to. Why wouldn't we do that?
On February 23rd, 2017. See this statement in context.