The provinces and the territories worked really in hard the last four or five years to talk about how we can keep our population healthy. As I stated earlier, equally important to treatment when you fall ill is to keep you from getting ill in the first place. I believe that jurisdictions...and I've stated before that with the trends we are seeing, with predictable funding going into health care.... You can't keep up, unless you start to shift, keeping the people out of the institutions in the first place.
So the work that we signed off on in September is an agreement with the provinces and territories for the very first time to keep people healthy, whether that be dealing with obesity, developing food guides, affordable food, diabetes, or tobacco. There are a number of initiatives and programs that we're funding through cancer initiatives. There are a number of projects that we're working on collectively that will benefit jurisdictions.
At the same time--you will not see the results overnight--we need to start focusing initiatives on the injury prevention piece. I'm excited about the work, and the group is looking at finalizing some of the recommendations this fall. You will see some announcements being made across the country on a number of initiatives. I can say that the commitment to working collaboratively across the country in the area of prevention is well received.