We identified that Health Canada had worked to try to do a couple of surveys of health outcomes. One was on Inuit oral health in 2008-09. One was on first nations health in 2009-10. However, there really haven't been enough of these types of studies over enough of a period of time for them to really know whether what they are doing is having an impact. They need to try to look at their data.
Of course, all we can really expect them to work with is the data they have on the dental services that they are providing or that they are making sure are provided. As soon as you get into things like people's eating habits and that type of thing, a whole different type of data needs to be collected. You get into personal information and all of those types of things.
We would expect them to be able to work with the data that they do collect on the services they're providing to be able to understand whether, for instance, if children are getting the services under the children's oral health initiative by the time they are age seven and as they get older they're coming back for regular dental visits, then there are better health outcomes. We would expect them to be able to look at it from that point of view.
In terms of the other issues, the access to nutritious food and those types of things, those are other activities that they would need to work on, perhaps outside of this program. We did an audit a while back on nutrition north and about how that program is intended to try to get access to that type of food. But that was a different audit. In terms of this particularly, we would expect them to use the data that they do have to try to identify some of that cause and effect.