Health committee  If I could add to that, this funding was not a renewal or an extension. It was a submission of completely new project proposals that were not evaluated on the basis of a past evaluation of existing programs. They were all considered brand new projects. The five years that we have

Health committee  It's the aboriginal diabetes initiative. The focus is diabetes prevention, but certainly obesity prevention is a large aspect of that.

Health committee  A national evaluation was done on the program a couple of years ago, but we never heard back on any results as far as projects from across the country are concerned.

Health committee  Thank you for your question. If I could speak to this, and I think to Ms. Gagnon's question on the timeline for when we would expect to see changes, when the ADI was first started we received three years of funding. At the end of those three years, in the month of March, we were

Health committee  I just have one other comment. Every year, public health units do an annual nutritious food basket costing for each region. Before coming to this meeting, I was asking our public health nutritionist if she is aware if the provincial social assistance program uses that cost estim

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very honoured to be here to speak on behalf of the Aboriginal Nutrition Network. I'm a member of the Abenaki First Nation in Quebec and one of seventeen aboriginal registered dieticians in Canada. I brought a copy of the role paper for the Aboriginal