Mr. Speaker, the government must acknowledge that current estimates show that maternal and newborn child health outcomes for aboriginal women and infants are two to four times worse than the Canadian average.
It is sad that even though the Prime Minister co-chairs the UN committee on accountability for women's and children's health, Canada itself has very weak data for first nations, Inuit, and Métis outcomes.
Why has the government that purports to have leadership in maternal, newborn, and child health refused to deal with its own embarrassing record here in Canada?