Health committee  In terms of funding for post-secondary education, we have an agreement with the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation whereby we provide them with funding and they receive applications from first nations, Inuit, and Métis students, which tends to top up, for example, first nations students who may be receiving money through the Indian Affairs post-secondary program.

Health committee  I'll add one point about the data collection. I think you're really asking if we have the information now to plan and say how many of these we will need. That becomes very difficult when you're looking at a smaller population, and we're also working within a provincial health system.

Health committee  I'll follow up on what Shelagh Jane was saying. We started off by saying that we really needed to identify the numbers, at least, of the basic health professions--doctors, nurses, etc.--but we also needed to work at developing what would be a minimum data set of information. We brought together first nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders from across the country.