Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate all of you coming before this committee today. I'm going to ask a number of questions. If I can have relatively short, succinct answers, then I will be able to get through a lot more questions in my five minutes.
The government and the department have been looking at a variety of strategies and plans for a decade, and I'm going to ask perhaps Dr. Butler-Jones or any of you to comment. Where are the results? Are we seeing concrete, measurable evidence that we are achieving results? I guess what we're looking for--what I'm looking for--is accountability and value for money. I appreciate that all of us want to tackle this very serious problem, and it saddens us greatly that there is such a high level of this problem in Canada, but we need to see some value for the money that's been spent thus far.
That's my question. Where are the results from all the studies we've had, the comprehensive plans, and the flow charts? What can we point to as value for money in terms of results?