Great, thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister Ambrose, I want to go back to what I think are some of the more urgent issues facing our country when it comes to health, and those are the challenges faced by indigenous communities.
I'm very troubled by the statement that you made earlier with regard to the reductions in budgets that we've seen to be at about 15% since 2011 not counting as cuts but as sunsetting.
Minister Ambrose, if we are to simply stick with the idea of sunsetting, we're talking about programs that were never replaced and certainly not replaced in terms of the critical care that was provided to communities. I know in certain cases those programs were indigenous, run by indigenous people; indigenous health professionals catered to indigenous communities and had high rates of success. Given that we've figured out there has been a slash of 15% to primary health care budgets since 2011, I'm wondering how you and your government can excuse that kind of a cut in an area where it's needed most.