I think this committee would be very interested in what the government is doing under the international polar year program. It is sponsoring a number of very important studies, including a number of studies in the Arctic on Inuit health. I'll give you an example of one in particular. It's the Inuit health study being led by Dr. Egeland. It's the largest Inuit health study ever conducted. It's being done aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ice-breaker Amundsen. There are other related research initiatives, but you spoke about arriving at baselines. This is going to be a kind of seminal study on being able to provide baseline information.
One component of it will be to look at children aged three to five, as far as their nutritional health, dietary habits, healthy growth and bones, vision, medical history, and that kind of thing. We hope that will contribute significantly to the body of knowledge we have and help inform us about the effectiveness of potential future interventions. The committee may want to follow up on how that fits into this context.
Thank you for your attention.