On April 13, we got word from Health Canada's First Nations and Inuit Health Branch that our health funding would be cut by 100%. One that particularly touches on the topic of today is that we had an aboriginal health initiative program, where we introduced the different health careers to young aboriginal girls. We did it in various ways. We had a huge conference where we had doctors and high-level health people come and speak to them as role models. We developed booklets about different health careers to get them interested so that they would pursue these careers and make a better life for themselves. We worked on that—the AHHRI it was called—for about four or five years. We did good work. We were proud of that work. It has been cut. Consequently, we will not be able to do any more work in that area. That's a great gap. The young girls we were trying to reach and the girls in the future that we would have reached through such a program will be at a loss.
On May 2nd, 2012. See this statement in context.