Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Ferguson, your report indicates that first nations and Inuit populations have almost twice as much dental disease and more oral health needs than the general population and cites reasons such as fewer dental visits, lack of affordable and nutritious food, and so forth. Among these on this list, though, are things such as geographic barriers. We know that some of our indigenous communities, particularly in the Far North, are very remote. I would think that this is a very dominant factor in those areas. It would answer for fewer dental visits and all these other things.
I wonder if you were able to correlate your data in relating need with geographic remoteness in any way.