According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, Status Indians are 31 times more likely to get tuberculosis and Canadian Inuit are 186 times more likely to have tuberculosis than Canadian-born non-aboriginals. The report comes at a time when Prime Minister Stephen Harper is preparing to lead a G8 initiative to improve the health of women and infants in the developing world. Critics have pointed out that there is plenty of work for the Canadian government to do in its own backyard to improve health outcomes and the TB findings underline that very point.