Yes, certainly. It's a small organization of 40 professional staff and a board of nine people that includes a couple of deputy ministers, one from Alberta and one from the Northwest Territories, the associate deputy from British Columbia, and the former head of the Ontario Hospital Association—that kind of person, like the person in Nova Scotia who is charged with the incredibly politically delicate task of reorganizing a number of regions there into one. There's a board that is heavily endowed with people who have direct front-line experience in the provinces in managing health care and there are staff who are professionally competent.
We work often through the use of ICT. We run webinars. Our collaborations combine online learning with face-to-face meetings. We back it up. We have a very strong capacity to assist the groups with whom we work to develop indicators and measure their performance so they are able to evaluate whether the interventions they are making are actually making a difference.
The benefit of bringing groups together from across the country, usually those working at a sub-provincial level with health regions and hospitals, is that they have an opportunity to learn what is going on in other jurisdictions, because policy frameworks in each province are slightly different.
I must say that our organization is one of the few that works across the country and that has always had very strong participation from institutions in Quebec, going back 15 years. For some organizations that are participating in programming, this might be the first and maybe the only time that they actually sit down with colleagues from Quebec.