Health committee  We haven't been able to do any research around whether the rates have increased or decreased. As a chronic disease, diabetes is certainly a focus, but we're in the early stages. You'd have to be doing this research for 10 years to be able to see effective change.

Health committee  No, we don't.

Health committee  Being a health authority, it's not something that I and our program would probably be telling people. Actually, we haven't even thought about it. People haven't asked us about it. It would be really interesting to find out if people actually knew it existed.

Health committee  The amount that...?

Health committee  Fourteen, yes; it seems like a lot.

Health committee  I think that if people know there is an advantage for them to save money on their taxes, absolutely, that would be very important for people to know.

Health committee  Especially people who are newer immigrants don't understand a lot of the Canadian systems, whether it be the medical, the education or tax system. I think for sure they would be interested in that.

Health committee  When we started doing focus groups with the schools—we did separate focus groups with the parents, kids and teachers—we found that children actually have a pretty big voice in the homes. Traditionally, in South Asian families, grandmothers would make the food and the families wou

Health committee  Sure. Clearly a lot of focus is on taking care of people with diabetes, with little effort on prevention. Many people feel that health education will not change people's behaviour, so oftentimes people are put on medications. Our ways of living in society have changed over the y

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I'd like to begin by thanking you for undertaking this important study and I'm especially grateful to Ms. Sidhu for bringing this issue forward. Today I'll be speaking about the Fraser Health Authority South Asian Health Instit