Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Nakurmiik and wela'lin for the invitation to speak to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.
I am speaking to you from Mi'kma'ki, which is the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq.
I am a Canada research chair in indigenous peoples' health and well-being at Dalhousie University and an associate professor of health promotion.
When people ask me what health promotion is, the best description I've heard is an analogy that has to do with a cliff. Our health care system is meant to deal with all of the things that happen at the bottom of the cliff, after people have fallen off. The ambulance arrives—