I just want to make a quick comment. I think what needs to be understood is the overall context of health care in our communities. For instance, 30% of our communities are located more than 90 kilometres from a GP. The nursing shortage in our communities, although the nursing shortage in Canada is very severe, is much more severe. Nurses are facing a huge primary care burden. They're constantly pressured to evacuate people out of the communities for emergency care. They don't have the time to sit there and talk for fifteen minutes with people on how they should improve their children's nutritional habits.
We do not have school-based nutrition and activity promotion programs in our communities, unless the communities have found a way to resource those and found a way to implement them. We were left out of the healthy schools initiative. We were left out of the pan-Canadian healthy living strategy, the $300 million. None of it was dedicated to first nations or Inuit, despite the fact that we had been engaged in the development of that strategy.
So the recognition has not been there that our population is at greater risk. It may seem self-evident, but it has not been the case, generally, of federal government policy.