Thank you very much for that really important question.
I'll reiterate once again that the work of the Mental Health Commission of Canada is so vitally important to actions that we will take in the years to come to promote positive mental health and to prevent mental illness. The work they have done on homelessness is really essential to understanding how we can prevent mental illness and promote mental health in street-involved children and youth, and in adults.
We are all looking forward to the mental health strategy that we expect will come forward from the commission early in 2012. That will represent many, many months of consultation across the country with Canadians, with health care providers, with researchers, and other experts, taking all of that into account and looking at what the important things are that we should be doing as a country.
Of course, providing mental health services to Canadians is the jurisdiction of the provinces and territories. Therefore, the work that we do with provinces and territories in surveillance of mental illness is providing reliable data on which to build solutions, but also to monitor the magnitude of change that we can achieve.
Our research efforts in mental health—and I'll turn to my colleagues from CIHR to talk about those—are certainly second to none internationally. We have a great deal of important research under way that is translating what researchers are finding into real-world solutions. That's so important to us as we're trying to deal with mental health problems, which, as you know, do not conform to one-size-fits-all solutions.
So I would say that the work that we're doing is building to a strong crescendo in terms of a very solution-oriented approach, armed with the tools that will enable us to measure progress and really see where we're having an impact.