Yes. Canada is doing poorly internationally with respect to indigenous specific data.
There are two issues. One is the need to build partnerships with indigenous communities and governing organizations. We were moving well in that direction about five years ago, but it's gone backwards with the cutting of the resources of our national aboriginal organizations and health directors at provincial and territorial levels.
The other big issue, which makes us unique among relatively affluent countries with minority indigenous populations is that we do not identify indigenous people in our health data set. Here we lag far behind New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S., as I know from having sat on an international indigenous health measurement group. Every other relatively affluent country is able to identify indigenous people. We're hidden in our data sets.
The way you would develop good statistics would be to have indigenous identity on vital registration and health service records. We're hidden in there.