Thank you very much.
I'd like to thank the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada for their presentation. I really appreciated the recommendations.
I would like to ask you a question about the aboriginal population. We've heard many presenters, and one of the pieces of information I found startling was that you see childhood obesity in the infant stage. You can start detecting it in infancy.
I notice that you make recommendations about breastfeeding and that sort of important factor. One of the other facts was that a lot of obese children are also malnourished and that there is a high correlation between low socio-economic status and obesity and that obesity contributes to cardiovascular disease. A lot of startling information has come out of this.
Within the first nations and Inuit health branch, I am sure that there's some partnership or some relationship you have. We have just had the cancellation of the tobacco control strategy, which had just recently been implemented, and it's not nearly as new as the tobacco control strategy for Canadians. We also have maternal health programs for which funding is frozen. So how critical are health promotion programs to addressing this issue, especially in a population at risk?