Thanks very much.
Obviously, in evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, tobacco is an excellent example. When I was elected to this House, smoking was at 31% and it's now at 20%.
I would like to know what evidence you were using in choosing to spend the $160 million a year on a tax credit rather than investing in the kinds of programs that Silken Laumann was talking about, that would be community-based and would hit the most vulnerable of our Canadians, who sometimes can't even afford the running shoes, let alone the hockey membership. In evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence, I would like to know what evidence you have. Do you have evidence from Nova Scotia that more kids actually participated, that more kids are more active? Sometimes public policy is that we have to do something; this is something, so let's do it. It isn't actually about evidence-based practice. I would like to know that.
Also, where did you get $500 from, and what was the policy process for choosing that rather than investing in the kinds of programs that we know work?