Health committee  The Public Health Agency contributes $250,000 a year for a period of five years, and I believe the rest of the provinces and territories together contribute $220,000 or thereabouts. Is that correct?

Health committee  I think there are a couple of opportunities on the federal side that I can see, certainly from the Public Health Agency. Certainly, in the middle, we're working with provinces and territories, but on the other side we play—and I would like to think we do play, maybe not enough, b

Health committee  Related to...?

Health committee  From a joint consortium's perspective, it's predominantly having both sides represented, however they're organized in their respective provinces and territories, and bringing the health and education sector together in these first years. They haven't always been working togethe

Health committee  We're missing Alberta and Quebec. There certainly have been discussions with Alberta, and we're hoping Alberta will choose to join. We'd certainly love to have Quebec as well, because they're doing some very interesting things.

Health committee  Indeed, and I'm sure other provinces and territories would benefit from what they're doing. We have to have a good inventory of who's doing what and what one province or territory is doing that is applicable to another, and then begin to draw in the other actors--the non-govern

Health committee  It's jointly funded. But we contribute, yes.

Health committee  We're certainly aware of CAHPERD's work and standards. It's a bit early to say we are making use of them, but certainly we're well aware of them, and they'll be built into the work we're doing as much as they possibly can be.

Health committee  Correct. At this stage, it's between member provincial and territorial partners, and it's an exchanging of information. One of the early tasks is to take data from the federal side, which we're responsible for, and from all the provinces and territories, and do a big inventory of

Health committee  I'd like to offer a few comments on that. Certainly, going back to my opening remarks on the joint consortium, it's unfortunate that Quebec is not yet a participant. We would certainly hope that one day they would choose to participate. This is not a formal FPT mechanism. It is a

Health committee  Thank you. I have brought Marie-France Lamarche, director of chronic disease prevention and community programs directorate at the first nations, Inuit, and health branch in Health Canada; Ann Ellis, who is with the office of nutrition policy and promotion, health products and

Health committee  We had a directed proposal, such as the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, for part of the fund, just before Christmas. We're getting the proposals, but I couldn't say what they are at this point. Any moment, any day, as soon as we can get it on our website, there'll be an ope

Health committee  I would just comment, then, that we do have a national strategic projects fund, a grants and contributions fund that allows us to develop tools out in communities with communities, which then, with the help of the federal government, can be disseminated into other communities. Ce

Health committee  I'm Kelly Stone with the Public Health Agency.