Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I find it a bit puzzling. I'm not doubting anybody, but we have one figure from Health Canada about the fact that it has increased, that there's been no success rate. I hear from other organizations working with aboriginal or first nations youth that they are seeing a difference with programs such as BLAST and BLAST 2.
I was very active in the anti-smoking campaign in British Columbia and took a case to court. Given the fact that we saw a drop, it took quite a while, because those messages had been coming out, not just while we had the youth team and were working like that, but those kids had been hearing those messages from television, from posters, and so on. I'm not sure that first nations children had been hearing those messages for quite as long, so to make a decision in that short period of time concerns me.
If it's only about outcome, I have no argument about outcome. If the money is renewed, then certainly there should be outcomes. There should be a way of designing outcomes, but they need to be designed in the context of what has previously happened with those youth.