As Dr. Finegood said, there are various types of research. One area in which we don't do a lot of it and should be doing more is what I'll call intervention research, so that when we make a change in a community, we research it. A lot of the research is telling us why we should be doing things, what the basis of the actions is. We're not doing enough research in Canada on what works. When you implement a change in a community, the requirement should be almost, if it's government-funded, that money be set aside to research the success of that intervention, so that if it succeeds it can be applied and if it doesn't we won't waste our money applying that intervention in other communities when there's no evidence it works. We can do more of that kind of research in Canada.
On June 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.