There have. I think it began in 2023 or 2024. I'm not sure of the dates. Health Canada started to do an online consultation and provided some funding to different disability groups for indigenous perspectives on end-of-life care.
As I'm sure you know, Senator, it was on for a year. It had to be extended because of a lack of uptake. At the end of the day, they had 250 respondents from across Canada, 50 of whom they eliminated. In 2024 the population in Canada of those who identified as indigenous was 1.8 million, so the response rate was 0.001222%. I mean, I guess you could consider that a consultation. I don't know if it's that valuable.
We actually met with Health Canada in relation to that. We gave them a six-page document on our concerns about the online consultation. We had a meeting with them as well to address our concerns. I wouldn't say it was a productive meeting, but it was cordial. They offered us the possibility of a contract to do more consultations. We said that if we did that, then we would talk about the history of the AMAD committee. We'd talk about the recommendations. We'd talk about the implementation of MAID, including recommendations from mature minors and advance directives. I know that's not part of what we're looking at today, but we wanted to give the whole view for our communities and for the people we serve, so that they could have informed knowledge and could better answer questions on the survey than what had been provided. We never got a call back.