Thank you.
I too was at the meeting, Madam Chair, and was not satisfied with the answers from Health Canada. At least six projects were funded by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, and I suspect there were more that had some involvement with violence against women and aboriginal women. The officials from Health Canada indicated how the moneys were going into Health Canada. They certainly did not address the full complement of programming that was done under the Aboriginal Healing Foundation funding, and there's clearly a significant gap.
My concern with this motion and the previous motion is not only timing. I was part of the health committee discussions on another issue, and ministers were invited and simply refused to come. So I would say let's invite the minister. I want to know. One of the grants was actually in her own community where the funding was. What Health Canada is doing is in no way making up for the disparity and the lack of funding under the Aboriginal Healing Foundation.
So I would support--