Mr. Chair, I'm happy to answer the member's question about what I think is a very important development in the country. As the members of the committee would know, as we, through Health Canada, deliver health services to first nations and Inuit people, we typically deliver on reserve. Often even those are transferred, because I think we recognize that first nations delivery is often the best route to effective programming in those circumstances. In those areas of the country where there are actual self-government agreements that are signed--and those are led by our colleagues at Indian and Northern Affairs—and come to fruition, then the funding actually leaves Health Canada and is transferred from INAC as part of that self-government arrangement. In these cases, in a sense, we go beyond just the transfer to an individual community. We actually transfer the responsibility and the dollars as part of the self-government agreement. It's new in this instance, but it would have occurred in other parts of the country.
On March 10th, 2011. See this statement in context.