Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has brought forward a question that is of great concern to public health and to the Ministry of Health.
We have been spending a million dollars a year so far to curb tuberculosis in aboriginal communities. We have now added $2.8 million extra per year over the next three years to try to eradicate tuberculosis so that by the year 2000 there will only be 20 per 100,000 affected and by the year 2010 we will have eradicated it completely.