Health committee  I know from the research we do with the communities that there's a real movement toward community-based approaches whereby communities are involved. We engage the communities in anything we do. It's time-consuming and messy. It takes time to engage people and build capacity as yo

Health committee  Why did we take four years? We've always needed the tools. We're building capacity in the communities around research, and it's been missing. There's been a gap and now we're beginning to build it. Our organization has been in existence for only eight years, and we're now in the

Health committee  I can't answer that question.

Health committee  To the question in relation to data not available, we are missing data. There are gaps. We are not able to track because we have no mechanism yet to look at the real numbers of aboriginal health human resources. Using the statistics from Stats Canada isn't good enough; they're no

Health committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the invitation to participate in this session. I'm Paulette Tremblay. I'm the chief executive officer of the National Aboriginal Health Organization. NAHO is an aboriginal-designed and -controlled body commit