Thank you, and I want to thank my colleagues for giving me an opportunity to follow up with some questions.
I'm going to direct them to Ms. Cooper. I want to follow up on your observations from your own experience over the last 25 years. The federal government has, I believe, played a leadership role in working with the provinces and territories in promoting and supporting our health care system and innovation within the system. In fact, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research made pain, disability, and chronic diseases a strategic research priority following consultations with stakeholders. They have provided more than $96.7 million in funding for research on pain, including chronic pain, since 2000.
You mentioned that you will be launching a national strategy in April 2012 and that it will involve all provinces. In developing this national strategy, have you come across any best practices in the provinces that would feed into what your strategy on chronic pain is going to be?