As a follow-up to your last comment about setting parameters on some of these issues, I would like to add that as a first nations person—and I also represent a riding that has a very high percentage of aboriginal people, including first nations and Métis—I appreciate the consideration on aboriginal health. Of course, you know the expanse of that file.
Because of an issue we're dealing with in my riding that has been ongoing.... I know Health Canada has been involved in putting out a report. But on the issue of tuberculosis, which is on this list, what I suggest is that.... Because the proposed Public Health Agency of Canada Act doesn't include a first nations jurisdiction--so it doesn't apply on reserve--public health, as an issue under the aboriginal health file, may be one way of paring down that file.
In terms of the pandemic strategy you're talking about for the avian influenza that the Public Health Agency has been working on—again, it doesn't apply in first nations jurisdictions—I think if we look at public health under the aboriginal health file, that's what I suggest would be critical. If we're looking at a nationwide strategy on this pandemic, and we're dealing with epidemics that are public health concerns in first nations as well, then public health may be one area.