Thank you to both our presenters today. It was great to hear from you both. Since you're on video conference, I want to note that in our audience today in Ottawa, we have a whole class of nurses from British Columbia. It's good to see young nursing students here learning about both the challenges and the opportunities.
I'm going to start with Tania.
Ten years ago, I remember there was a situation in which there was a federal government nursing station beside a health authority station. The nurses for the indigenous communities were trained in immunization but the nurse for the health authority wasn't, and they were having someone from the health authority drive out to, I think, two babies who needed immunization. It was quite crazy that the jurisdictional barrier created just enormous costs, and frankly, a waste of money.
What you're telling me with your story about your mother is that this situation has not changed. I had hoped and I had been optimistic that with the First Nations Health Authority, there would be increased flexibility for some of those jurisdictional issues. Can you tell me whether there has been any improvement, and if there are still these huge jurisdictional issues in terms of what makes sense for a community? What would you recommend that we as a committee suggest to the government?