In relation to tuberculosis, the very first time that the federal government ever publicly promised to work with Inuit to ensure that Inuit had the same level of social standard as any other Canadian was when it announced that it would work with Inuit to eliminate tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat by 2030. In the history of Canada, there had never been a pledge by the Government of Canada to do anything like that for the Inuit population.
We've received $27.5 million for a first iteration of TB elimination work. In ITK's pre-budget submission for this year, we put a $141 million ask for TB elimination work, in addition to a $3.2 billion, 10-year housing ask, which is directly related to the TB elimination work.
Public health officials, medical experts and everyone within the TB field recognizes the explicit link between overcrowding and the risk of tuberculosis. We need to do more to ensure we can meet the 2030 target and that we can celebrate Canada's level of commitment, and our own level of commitment as Inuit, to put this as a priority, so that more can be done to ensure we do the right research that is necessary to understand where tuberculosis intervention needs to take place.
We also need to do more to ensure that, from the knowledge we have from a global perspective, we're implementing this in the Arctic to eliminate TB by 2030.