Health committee  What I really want to emphasize to a group that may not feel they have the medical expertise to fully understand this is that this is not a complicated disease. This is curable, treatable, easy, cheap. It's not rocket science. It doesn't require a wizard to be at the steering wheel.

Health committee  Thank you. There are a number of communities—probably only five or six, actually—that seem to be the epicentre of the outbreak. These communities in the past have asked FNIHB to do entire community screenings. That's not an unreasonable request by international standards. If there are high rates of TB and frequent outbreaks within a community, one is encouraged to screen the entire community, looking for latent TB cases.

Health committee  Perhaps, but I think it's an issue of resources. I think it's largely that you're going to end up robbing Peter to pay Paul. They will end up saying, which nurse do you want to take out of which community to do all that screening for you?

Health committee  Thank you. I think one of the limitations the federal government has in all of this is that the accountability of the FNI regions is nil. Money is given to each of the FNI regions to support their TB programs, but there is no accountability and no expectation that these regions are accountable for the dollars they are reporting on an annual basis.

Health committee  I look forward to hearing from our provincial experts in the next round at 10 o'clock, where they will deem that actually is not happening.