I'll start. I have a couple of quick questions.
Ms. Woods, the winter 2009 draft of the Canadian tuberculosis prevention and control strategy, appendix 9, says, “The Inuit TB strategy is under construction and in preparation”. We've heard already today that somehow there isn't a strategy. I think what we are hearing even today is that we don't even have the data to actually do a strategy on what, by when, and how. If you don't have the numbers, then I think TB is a barometer, or almost a measurable sign, of inequity. That is what we're hearing. What I'm hearing is that because it's shared, there are different standards, according to the performance indicators, in every region. Without a strategy, how can we actually do the job? What are the standards? How are we meeting them? Why is it different in different aboriginal communities or across the country?
As we said during estimates, when somehow the medical services branch at CIC gets almost twice the money the first nations and Inuit health branch gets for TB.... Is it resources? Is it a lack of a plan? How can this steadily get worse over these last years as the non-aboriginal population gets better and better and we leave our aboriginal populations behind? I guess at some point the lack of X-ray machines obviously is huge in all these fly-in communities.
I'll leave these other questions. Maybe we'll just let Joyce ask her questions, and then you can all answer them.
What are we doing, obviously, on the social determinants of health, because we're not going to win anywhere without the help of INAC and the other government departments that can help with those things?