Thanks very much, Madam Chair.
And thanks very much to our presenters here this morning.
Certainly we've heard a great deal about this issue. I would like to address some of my comments to begin with, to Ms. Woods, please. I'm going to refer to some of the things you said in your opening remarks.
You said that Health Canada is working diligently to help close the gap between the first nations on reserve and the Inuit. You said there had been a significant reduction in TB rates over the past 30 years but they still remain much higher than in the non-aboriginal population. My first question would be, how and what you are doing to close the gap specifically?
Then you talked about adopting the global stop TB rate reduction target. I'm wondering if you could talk a little more about that, because I don't think you were able to explain too much of it in your opening remarks. Could you tell us how that's going to work and how you are going to try to attain that target?
One of the other things you talked about was the $3 million of additional funding in 2009-10. I'm wondering what that was specifically put towards and if we have seen any results or any feedback from that additional funding.