Thank you very much for your presentation, and for being here today.
You've talked a lot about this committee's recommendations for more data and the different efforts that have been made to improve data in the country. Do we have a sense that on one hand there are fewer cases and fewer incidents of cases because of the educational or other preventative actions? Is this a declining problem? Is it something that is out of our control at the moment?
And on the treatment side, are we finding that while there may not be cures, there are effective opportunities to treat the condition in a way that assists people to have a higher quality of life?
I ask both of these questions bearing in mind the wide range of concerns this raises at all levels of government and in different sectors of society. But are we effectively collecting data from the various sectors you mentioned--the homeless, the prison population, and kids in school? It seems to me that based on the numbers we were seeing a few years ago, if it's not plateauing or indeed the incidence is not being reduced, there's a ticking time bomb here in terms of costs, but more importantly, in the deterioration of people's lives.
I'd like to get from you a little better sense of what kind of grip we have on this issue.