Thank you.
I think there are some exciting potentials on the horizon. Dr. Taylor mentioned this joint consortium on school health and the interface between where the environments are that children use and what we can do. The reality is for things to happen at that level. You need somebody who cares about health, who interfaces with education and is making some changes within the system. In fact, I can tell you, three children later, that over the lifetime of having three children, there isn't even an interface between those two systems that's operative right now. Those are some of the early steps that are being taken out of the new joint consortium on school health. But there's so much more that needs to be done. So if you meet Canadians where they're living, you need them to be supported so that they have environments.
Dr. Taylor mentioned the environments that can encourage physical activity. Those built-in environments are equally important for healthy eating. You need to be able to support Canadians. When they get on an airplane--you people travel; have you tried to eat? Let me tell you, it's a huge challenge in the area of what you're given, how you even access foods that are going to meet your nutrient needs and do it at a reasonable calorie level and allow you to get on.
I guess I'm simply trying to say that when you're doing this, the capacity for me is that I think we've decimated public health systems in this country to a level where even when you're at our levels, trying to figure out how you are going to do this, you become a country of demonstration projects. Monique Bégin said that to us not long ago, and that's what we've become. We've got to move past that. We have to get down to making sure that there are systems in place at the local level that can support people.