Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for what you've had to tell us today.
Certainly I acknowledge the importance of indigenous knowledge. I will never forget that when I was a medical student in the sixties and seventies, I learned to my astonishment that oral contraceptives came from yams. That was based on observational knowledge in Mexico among the indigenous population there. As Mr. Lametti said, big pharma has quite often taken advantage of indigenous knowledge and appropriated it, changing a molecule here and there and patenting all sorts of medications.
Having said all that, like Mr. Soroka, I'm really interested in how we can achieve this type of partnership that has been talked about by so many of you.
Dr. DeGagné, you're recommending institutions potentially being run by indigenous groups and so on. Is there any model for that? Dr. Wrightson has talked a little bit about what she is doing up in the Northwest Territories. Are some provinces and territories moving in that direction?