Health committee  I'll let Beth answer.

Health committee  In terms of benchmarks against which we will be able to tell Canadians that we're advancing, I think, again, when we look at our framework for action and the various goals we have set for ourselves as a country, we are definitely moving and progressing in each one of these variou

Health committee  By what?

Health committee  Maybe I could leave that question to Beth.

Health committee  One is the national strategic projects fund.

Health committee  That one is ready to be released. I would say it will be within a matter of days.

Health committee  We're then expecting to get the proposals on all this and to have some announcements, most likely around April or May.

Health committee  April or May of this year. Are you talking about the alcohol strategy?

Health committee  There are two types of new solicitations. There is one that has already occurred. That one was a directed call, and it happened in December. My understanding is that we already have other proposals. Let me have Kelly answer that one.

Health committee  It's Public Health.

Health committee  I think we've made some progress. That's what's important. There has been progress on a number of fronts. There has been progress on awareness of the issue, that's for sure. There has been progress in terms of professional awareness, and that came out of our survey. We now have g

Health committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we have the mechanisms right now. I mentioned that we have the perinatal surveillance system, which includes the provinces and a number of academic centres in the country. We also have the congenital anomalies surveillance network. Basically tho

Health committee  I think we're not there yet. My understanding is that this is not generalized yet, so—

Health committee  I would say yes, we do collaborate, but I'll let Beth respond more specifically as to how we do that.

Health committee  The first question I think you mentioned is around the lead. Basically, the lead is something that will defer to the minister. At this stage, the Public Health Agency, whatever the lead will be, has a key role to play. Public health has a number of essential functions, one of whi