Madam Chair, perhaps I could speak specifically to our efforts as part of our participation in the Inuit health branch. As David has mentioned, all jurisdictions—provinces, territories, and the federal government—are very much aware of the challenge. So we, as part of the first nations and Inuit health branch, have some specific focus here as well.
We invest $16 million annually, as part of an FASD prevention program. We're working on trying to improve awareness. We've done some public opinion research, which tells us that we are actually increasing the awareness in our first nations communities of some of the challenges.
We are working to develop actual support programs that give us culturally appropriate and evidence-based prevention, and early intervention programs. So we're working with some mentoring projects, for example, in certain areas to provide women who are pregnant with some supports. We're also supporting community coordinator positions to increase access for families to multidisciplinary teams in certain areas.
We're continuing to work with communities. Again, much like other issues, this isn't something the Government of Canada can do for people. It is working with communities, providing them with the support, the knowledge, the information, and the assistance to deal with what is obviously a very challenging and important issue.