I thank the witnesses very much for being here.
In the Senate committee report entitled "Canada's Response to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic", the committee made recommendation 15, which reads as follows:
The committee therefore recommends that Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch work collaboratively with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada as well as the Public Health Agency of Canada to identify and address the conditions particular to on-reserve First Nations and Inuit communities such as overcrowding and poor access to clean water that make them vulnerable to communicable diseases, including pandemic influenza, and that this collaboration include measures to improve the public health infrastructure.
I have a question relating to this recommendation that I would like to ask one of the representatives of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The report was tabled in December 2010. So the recommendation was made close to two years ago. What progress have you made in this regard with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs? Have you been able to implement this? Has much progress been made on this recommendation?