Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and my thanks to all of the presenters today. It has certainly been extremely interesting, and we've received a tremendous amount of good data, I think.
I have a couple of comments to make, and I go back to Dr. Finegood's presentation. In slide 4 we see that the funding has increased four to five times over the years, but obesity is still increasing by leaps and bounds. So even though we are funding at an increased rate, we don't see results from it.
Then on slide 15 you say we need to be measuring effectiveness in the field. I look at those two things. Then, when Peter was speaking he said, if I heard him correctly, he'd been working for 15 years on this issue of obesity. I think we're all starting to recognize that childhood obesity is a worldwide epidemic, and you said, I believe, that Canada was the fifth-worst in the world for the numbers, and that even though adult numbers are rising for obesity, we're seeing huge leaps and bounds in childhood obesity, that it's increasing far more rapidly in children.
You've pointed out the anomalies from eastern Canada and said we need to do a study on those, and you spoke of the $1.6 billion in costs directly to the health care system and the $2.3 billion indirectly—huge, phenomenal amounts of dollars that are going towards this for health costs.
I guess my question, to whoever wants to address it, is, do we not have any measurements in place? You're saying on one hand that things need to be measured, but we're hearing from everybody that although funding has increased, the results are not there to reflect the increase in funding. So are we using any measurements, are they incorrect measurements, or do we just not have measurements at this point?