Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. I also want to echo what my colleague Mr. Malo said earlier about one of the key problems being the lack of funding for aboriginal communities. Similar to the problem of dealing with H1N1, without basics such as drinking water, the matter of developing students and encouraging them to have dreams and the desire to pursue them is more complex.
What I find fascinating is that, instead of giving up and being negative, you are extremely optimistic and you continue to fight, day after day, for the ability to instill in these young people the desire to pursue meaningful careers in medicine. That is very much to your credit, and I want to commend you.
That being said, I would like to talk about initiatives. A little earlier, we heard about some real initiatives that successfully captured the interest of young people in communities and engaged them.
First, I would like each witness to give us a tangible example of an initiative that was successful at the local level in terms of encouraging and engaging youth. At the same time, I would like to know if you have methods for communities to share information on initiatives that work so as to promote their implementation—I know that there can be cultural differences.