You would have to reinstate the health directorates for our national aboriginal organizations. The funding for the health portfolio was cut for the Native Women's Association of Canada. It was significantly cut for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council. I believe there were significant cuts to the Assembly of First Nations and the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples as well.
When I started, there were actually people in a portfolio who would have that expertise. Now, even at the provincial and territorial level, I'll go to meetings...because this urban data that I was talking about, that is owned by the communities. We negotiated that, so it can be done.
If you look at New Zealand, they have seven ways of identifying Maori in their health system, and the Maori feel empowered. There are actually protocols to ask people in a respectful manner.