At the last meeting, we heard from some witnesses from Diabetes Canada. The word that was used there for the 2013 Auditor General's report regarding the underperformance of the diabetes strategy was “scathing”. I'm going to quote from the report from 2013. It says:
While the Public Health Agency of Canada has collaborated with the provinces and territories to address common risk factors for chronic diseases, such as childhood obesity, its management practices for delivering programs and activities under the Canadian Diabetes Strategy are weak. It has not defined a strategy, priorities, performance measures, deliverables, timelines, and expected results to effectively deliver programs and activities. Furthermore, the Agency has not coordinated its diabetes activities internally. As a result, the Agency does not know whether its activities have had an impact on the well-being of people who live with diabetes or who are at risk of developing the disease.
I'd like to fast-forward to 2018. How successful have we been in addressing those concerns? Where are we at today?