Health Canada is working with Indigenous Services Canada to include palliative care as part of their engagement with first nations communities on a continuum of care. There are a number of different distinctions-based groups within this, so we've had to look at how to work with all of them individually.
We've also had extremely informative discussions with representatives of the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association and the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada, and these discussions helped shape several of the activities described in the action plan. We also heard from Inuit and Métis groups that we should start by looking at what has already been heard from them, so we've done a literature review on what they've already said around health care and palliative care. We will now move forward with our discussions with national indigenous organizations and representatives of urban indigenous peoples to work on indigenous-led engagement for a framework on palliative care.
Now, I cannot tell you exactly the time frame for that, because this is something that will be worked on with the groups that will be doing the engagement.
