I think there are a couple of opportunities on the federal side that I can see, certainly from the Public Health Agency. Certainly, in the middle, we're working with provinces and territories, but on the other side we play—and I would like to think we do play, maybe not enough, but certainly we do play—a role as a catalyst funder, awareness raiser, kind of a clearing house. We have a number of physical activity, healthy eating, healthy weight campaigns that are going under the healthy living and chronic disease strategy throughout the year to try to provide some sort of federal leadership, some kind of encouragement. And it's an activity that we, again, would do with our partners, provinces and territories, but the leadership would come from us. Some of those things seem to be bearing quite good fruit, and certainly they will be evaluated.
At the other end of the spectrum—and I've been in front of this committee before—we've talked about our national children's programs, which is an area where we do have federal responsibility and we do have money out in communities. In that case, with our prenatal nutrition program, our aboriginal head start program, both ours and also that of the first nations and Inuit health branch, and the community action program for children, we offer, in varying degrees, depending on the program, nutritional support, food security, support for parents in planning and preparation of food, teaching moms how to make healthy meals for their children, and dads as well for that matter, and physical activity, so that these children, when they're in their formative years, before they get turned over to the provinces and the territories and the schools, have the best chance that they can to succeed, in terms of their schooling, and that they're in a good, healthy state when they move forward.
We do feel federally we have some responsibility to get these particularly vulnerable children on the right road, and we use our programs to do that. And we employ all of these themes that we're talking about here to that population group—the vulnerable population group, at-risk children--particularly where we have a pretty far reach from the federal perspective, along with our partners out in communities and the provinces and territories that participate with us. We can reach a lot of families before these children get into school.