Status of Women committee  We started with some exploratory conversations with the indigenous women's organizations and the national indigenous organizations, to see if they would be interested in working with us on an ongoing basis with respect to these issues. Our minister and the Minister of Health are

Status of Women committee  The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada are also interested in collaboration. Also, through her outreach and our outreach to provinces and territories, we will need to engage with provincial and territorial licensing b

Status of Women committee  Thank you for inviting me to appear before this committee on this critical issue of forced or coerced sterilization. I'd like to begin by acknowledging that today we're meeting on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin people. We are here today because we are all di

Health committee  I think we made a significant amount of progress with respect to awareness, access to screening, access to treatments and foot care, and so forth. I think that where the work really remains is those underlying risk factors with respect to socio-economic status and food security.

Health committee  The prevalence continues to remain stable at 19% to 20%.

Health committee  The whole mandate of the new department that I'm part of at Indigenous Services Canada is specifically to better address the social determinants of health by breaking through those separations across sectors and across mandates, and bringing common purpose services together in on

Health committee  That's a big question. I will humbly say that in the past, the chronic disease prevention framework that was developed with the first nations—now the Inuit have their own, really, and copies of that could be provided to the committee—essentially was a program-by-program approac

Health committee  Well, in the language, in the indigenous language for sure, and also in having more of a verbal type of relationship versus a written one, in telling stories in nutrition education, and in having community sessions that connect and bring elders and youth together and doing that o

Health committee  Yes. Anybody who is a registered first nation or recognized in it, regardless of where they live and regardless of their income, receives coverage under the non-insured health benefits program.

Health committee  I don't know but we can follow up for sure.

Health committee  Yes, it's for off-reserve as well. But it's for registered first nations and recognized Inuit.

Health committee  In the last budget 2018, we were able to rebase the non-insured health benefits program and also allow for growth to accommodate growing demand and need. It is a needs-based program so it's very difficult as it's not capped. The government has accommodated that growth at this tim

Health committee  Yes, that would be our assessment. We follow CADTH recommendations, and we align ourselves with other public insurance plans across the country.

Health committee  We do have experts in our department who could answer that question in about five seconds, but I apologize that I don't have the comparison of all the PT drug formularies. However, it is information we have and could provide.

Health committee  Well, I would certainly say that the research has demonstrated that we see more acute health care conditions—through hospitalization data, for instance—from first nations who are living in remote or isolated communities. Diabetes screening, early screening, and prevention are ext