As I said, the problem is that the health data is held in different places. So the province has some data, the federal government has some data, and now in British Columbia aboriginal organizations are holding data. The problem is that no one feels they have the authority to actually share information at the community level. What we get told is that we need to create working relationships with the communities to access that data. Well, in British Columbia that's logistically impossible. You can't have personal relationships with 200 communities.
So I think the bottom line is that what gets recorded and reported gets worried about and acted on. I think the fact that we don't have a community-level surveillance of suicide is very troubling, and I think we should.