Okay. Thank you for those questions. That's a lot to cover.
Let me start with the last one. The additional $3 million last year was money that we scraped together. A lot of it went to outbreak control in Manitoba, but it was spread more broadly than that. I think that accounted for maybe half of it. It went to enhance a whole lot of activities in various regions, but largely it was in Manitoba and Saskatchewan last year.
You're asking how we intend to get to the global reduction target. I won't have a good answer to that question until we finish re-examining the national strategy, because within the national strategy there will be a number of targeted approaches to the key areas. As Dr. Barker said, there is an epicentre; what we now have to do is make sure our focus is squarely on the epicentre and on finding out the things that are going to work. That will require working very closely with the communities, with Dr. Barker, and with other people at the table to ensure that we have approaches that will work, community by community.
There are jurisdictional complications, without doubt, as I believe a number of people have said, most notably Dr. Long. There are confounding jurisdictional issues. It's evident we have to rise above them. We have to get beyond them. We have to sit down with our partners.
I am hearing a lot about disconnects; we're going to have to work with our regional offices on this issue to make sure we have a better understanding of what's going on. I will take exception to Dr. Barker's statement that they are not at all accountable; of course they're accountable, but perhaps just not in the way she would like to see. Again, we can sit down and work on this aspect to see where we can set realistic evidence-based interim targets so that we can achieve something, instead of sitting here every year explaining why we haven't made any progress.