Thank you.
Thank you all for coming and for taking time at an important point in your careers to be here today. Having been a patient at Pontiac Hospital years ago, I am particularly glad that you're here, Dr. Wootton.
Also, Grand Chief Evans, I want to begin by saying that if the paper you held up has come from our party, I want to first of all extend apologies if it is in any way offensive to you or to anyone. I had not seen it until you just held it up now, and I heard the concern in your voice. I take it seriously. If it was done by our party, I want to assure you that I am convinced it was done to try to raise attention to the dire needs of vulnerable communities, particularly in our first nations and Inuit communities. It was, I hope, done with the best intentions, and I hope you will accept that apology, if indeed we did that.
That being said, I have a question. Technically, the most important thing I've heard so far is from Dr. Anderson: the concept of evaluation and the sure-and-steadiness of an evaluation from the first wave of H1N1, and how we have perhaps failed in doing one.
If there is advice you can give further, I'd like you to elaborate a bit more. If you have an intuitive evaluation already that is not yet scientific, that would be helpful for us. And can you address how we may advise our government about how to do a more appropriate evaluation of what we did?