Minister, in your presentation a little earlier, you basically identified three risk factors: being between the age of 16 and 25, pregnancy or underlying chronic disease. You seemed to be saying that the reason why Aboriginal communities are more affected than others is that there are greater numbers of individuals in those communities with those sociological or physiological characteristics. Therefore, there are more cases in Aboriginal communities for those very reasons.
Is that actually true? Has the Public Health Agency of Canada done any studies showing that there is a higher incidence in Aboriginal communities as a result of these factors, or are there other realities that could also be considered risk factors?