I can speak to a couple of things you mentioned. The alliances that are at the provincial level--the chronic disease and other healthy living alliances--definitely have groups concerned with poverty involved in them. The recommendations that they tend to bring forward tend to be very conscious of those kinds of issues and concerns. And the Heart and Stroke Foundations across the country participate in those alliances. Through a variety of other fora, I think we tend to find ourselves in meetings with people looking at the issue from a number of perspectives, including that one.
Specifically with respect to the municipal level and a built environment, we're doing a number of things at the Heart and Stroke Foundation to try to increase awareness of this linkage. We have an annual healthy public policy award that we award to a policy-maker in the country who is really seen to make a difference in heart health. This year's award winner was Mr. Larry Beasley, who is the head of planning for the City of Vancouver. We gave him that award in terms of highlighting the ways in which Vancouver has worked very hard to develop a city that encourages physical activity and a more active population.
We're also in discussions right now with the Canadian Institute of Planners to develop a joint award between the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Institute of Planners that would go every year to a municipality of whatever size in the country that has done something to get at this issue and to help Canadians live more active lives.
We are also coming out--and we're going to be working with Diane's institute to do it, as well as with a number of other institutes, including the Institute of Aging--with a request for proposals this fall that will really try to build the evidence base on the link between how we design our communities and the food and activity choices available to Canadians in communities and obesity.