I think, Dr. Coutinho, that these were your words.
If not, maybe they were yours, Ms. Baird.
You called diabetes “a systemic disease at pandemic levels”. That's a pretty jarring description of where we're at in 2018.
We just had some senior federal civil servants here. I was asking them about the degree of progress that we've made since the 2013 Auditor General's report, which I will say is scathing. It's just an across-the-board comprehensive indictment of the failure of the diabetes program at Health Canada at that time.
At that time in 2013, the AG's report called for Health Canada to commit to properly measuring outcomes of the aboriginal diabetes initiative. Health Canada agreed to enhance performance measures to assess the impact of the ADI, to use those enhanced performance measures to assess and advance the diabetes activities funded, and to provide increased support to regions to use data for health status reporting. In response to that report, Health Canada committed to doing all of that by the end of 2013.
Have you seen major changes or progress in the past five years since those better performance measures and enhanced programming commitments were made by Health Canada?