What I can say is that, first, as you may be aware, we do have an Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health at CIHR. We've worked closely with my colleague, Dr. Jeff Reading, on issues around aboriginal peoples' health and diabetes. We've co-funded a number of projects. We illustrated one there.
So we are trying to work with communities that are at greater risk of obesity and developing subsequent chronic diseases. We are also working with the first nations and Inuit health branch and other components of the Public Health Agency at the level of trying to ensure that we can bring researchers and individuals who are working on health promotion to the same table.
Actually, one of the slides I didn't use, the very last slide in my presentation, illustrates the knowledge cycle. One of the things we've become really clear about in this country--and this is true around the world--is that when we put money out the door for health promotion, often the money stops at the point in time when you ask about evaluation of the impact of that particular activity. So we've been working hard behind the scenes with colleagues who are doing health promotion to ensure the systems and mechanisms that are in place to actually get the evaluation and research done on those health promotion programs actually are used. That's really a critical systemic problem that needs to be fixed in order for us to actually know what the impact of different interventions is.
We certainly know that as you move from culture to culture, the way you approach, say, encouraging physical activity is not going to work the same way for one culture as it might for another. It's really important to have people on the ground level working with different communities and for us to understand what the impact of those efforts actually is.