Thank you for being with us today.
I would like to talk about the question of First Nations' health. The federal government has a very specific clientele. The Wait Time Alliance and the Canadian Healthcare Association have looked into this. According to the Canadian Healthcare Association, it is impossible to know what advances have been made. It is not clear. We do not know if funds have been allocated. People bring up infant mortality and youth suicide, but we do not have a lot of data. In 2000, the Auditor General made very specific recommendations. All the shortcomings were highlighted. How can it be that, in 2006, no concrete results had yet been obtained?
Earlier, we were talking about the lack of human and financial resources. As we know, this is a federal responsibility. Do you not think that, if the federal government had good results with its own clients, it could show the way. Do you not think that the serious shortcomings identified by the Auditor General for the First Nations would give the provinces a clear idea of the situation? We ask them to give us their reports, their data. Getting a Cin the 10-year plan is not very convincing.
I would like to know why we are not getting there. What resources do we not have? Have you looked into it? Has the Department of Health looked into the shortcomings in First Nations' health? I would like to put that question to the Wait Time Alliance and to the Canadian Healthcare Association.