On the other part of the question, we're doing a number of things to improve aboriginal health. We're trying to shift our resources into promotion and prevention, so we can prevent disease, rather than just be in the business of treating it, as other health care systems are. For example, we're putting a lot of emphasis on things like prevention and management of diabetes, maternal and child health, and research to make sure that we take an evidence-based approach. We're also looking at the underlying determinants of health. We recently released a report on this topic and are working much more closely with first nations and our federal partners to ensure that we address health outcomes in a comprehensive way. We have the first nations regional longitudinal health survey and other techniques that we use, and continue to improve on, to ensure that we have health indicators that enable us to target our interventions and programming in the most efficient and effective way.
On May 14th, 2009. See this statement in context.