To answer directly, we have not stopped funding CHRs. We provide funding to the bands. The CHRs are not employed by us, but by the first nations directly. There are over 600 of them. There's tremendous variation in the roles they play and the things they do. They are associated usually with a number of community-based program activities, but it's the first nation that determines what they will do.
We do support a lot of other community-based paraprofessionals and allied health professionals working in such areas as addictions, mental health, diabetes, maternal and child health, and home and community care. We have no intention of stopping support, because that's a very important cadre of people, and in fact what you'll see in our renewed aboriginal health human resources initiative is that we put more focus on the paraprofessionals and on getting down to the community level to help communities provide opportunities to bring those people up to a level of competency certification so that they will eventually be comparable to people who practise off-reserve.