At our last meeting in August, we talked about the H1N1 crisis and first nations communities. Obviously, there was a deep-seated problem well before the crisis: the level of poverty, which is sometimes extreme. I was not trying to be radical, but I even likened it to the third world. When you see the sheer scope of the problem—the ability of communities to access clean drinking water and the state of certain buildings, for example—one might compare it to the third world, unfortunate as that may be.
I fully agree: the problem goes much deeper and has to do with access to drinking water. Without clean drinking water, a necessity of life, it will be extremely difficult to combat H1N1.
Mr. Evans, I do not mean to rub salt in the wounds, but I admit that I was very surprised by the document you showed us. Unfortunately, the rules of the House prohibit us from handing it out to the other committee members because it has to be translated first. You referred to the document a little bit.