Thank you.
Thank you to all of the presenters today. I think we're talking about some very important issues.
I'm going to date myself a bit, as I originally got into the health care field in the eighties. At that time, of course, every health card for a first nations person had a special identifier, so the data was readily available. However, if I recall, that drove some significant concerns about identifying individual personal concerns.
There was a real thrust at that time to say that this is wrong and we need to remove any identifiers that attach to our health care card. It goes to that personal ability to share information as you desire versus perhaps the desire of researchers and policy developers to have that information. That includes, to be quite frank, the national household survey versus having significant penalties attached to it. It's that voluntary nature that you, as a Canadian, you, as an aboriginal person, share that freely and willingly.
How do we square that circle in terms of very legitimate privacy concerns versus the value that data can provide?
Ms. Hopkins, could you start with that one?