I'll try to answer that. That's a really big question.
I think you are hitting on a really important point. Aboriginal women are performing at lower indicators when it comes to social determinants of health than all other Canadians, and it's not a matter of what aboriginal men are doing on reserve. And even if you were to look at that example, that's a very small segment of the aboriginal population. It doesn't include Métis and Inuit.
One of the bigger things that we've been looking at in the work that we've been doing is really connecting how, holistically, it is difficult to have one program or one strategy that doesn't address some of the other realities that we continue to face. So when aboriginal people and communities are performing at a different level, the comparisons no longer relate. Living in poverty, not having access to health care, not having access to food or shelter--these certainly change the priority of whether or not you're deciding to get into a certain profession.
We talk a lot about aboriginal youth being the largest part of our population right now, but who's having those aboriginal youth? Aboriginal women have been starting their families, raising their families, and not participating in some of the other stimulus programs that have been available. So by the time they're ready to get in there, did they have a chance to finish high school? Did they have a chance to go to post-secondary? At what point are they going back and starting their career? I think all of the different layers that contribute to the realities of aboriginal people is what you're seeing in just this one example.
That's a very big question. We could probably spend a couple of months just on that alone.