Mr. Speaker, the point is it will not satisfy the need. It is a drop in the bucket compared to what is required.
Water experts and ecologists like David Schindler have been screaming for a national water strategy from the government since the day it took office. What do we have eight years later? We have Walkerton. We have North Battleford. We have up to 100 aboriginal reserves and over 700 other communities that are faced with contaminated drinking water.
How could the government maintain the fiction that safe drinking water is a priority when it will not put its money where its mouth is?