Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the people who have come here to present to us today.
Certainly the presentations have been very informative, and I think we've run with a common thread through everybody's presentation. We've heard a lot of very difficult issues being discussed and we've heard about some solutions that have been put in place or that have been tried, but I'm not sure that they've been solutions.
I'm not sure where we go. We've heard the measures and the evaluations that have been done in the Kahnawake school project. You said you saw modest behavioural changes, yet the obesity increased drastically, if I remember correctly from the percentages that you gave. You learned some lessons about children being obese at a younger age; that there was a potential, from what you were doing, to motivate communities; and that you were seeing some community commitment. But I don't see where we have really gained from that.
Are there other areas? We've talked about different things, and other presenters have talked about things that we need. We need to have better data. I don't know how we get that data or whether we have a program that's going to give you that data.
You talked about continued financial support. Of course, everyone needs continued financial support to carry forth with other programming. You talked about promoting breastfeeding and active living. All of these things are common across all children in this country, and all of these things are ones we need to be promoting. Affordable, healthy food is a huge issue in all areas. I think it's more of an issue in first nation and Inuit areas because of the isolation in many cases, and the high costs.
You talked about promoting self-government in health. I'm not sure whether or not or how that fits in, and how that benefits.
I know those are a whole lot of things, but I just can't see a clear direction to take. If there are one or two things we could be working on, what would they be? I don't know who wants to comment on that.