Mr. Speaker, Jeffery Bates was a New Brunswick child who died last year because of water contaminated by E. coli. In nine years of Liberal rule we have seen Walkerton, North Battleford and many communities with contaminated water but we have not seen a national water standard.
A Health Canada report released yesterday calls on the government for national guidelines. When exactly will the Minister of Health introduce national standards to safeguard drinking water so children like Jeffery Bates will not die simply because they were thirsty?