Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank all of you for being here today. It's been incredibly interesting hearing from you. I think so many of your comments are bang on, in terms of where we are today with our health care—or illness care—system that we have in place. We know that we are living longer, but not necessarily healthier.
I think the observations that you've made, Dr. Kershaw, are right on, in terms of being able to demonstrate whether the amount that we are putting into the health care system is actually getting us the results that we need.
Mr. Harrington, your comments around self-care certainly support that we do need to address the tension that we have within our system between illness care and looking at health promotion and disease prevention.
I thank you so much for those comments. As my colleague said, it's a very interesting debate and a very timely one for us to be having.
I firmly believe that on the heels of the introduction of medicare there was meant to be a second phase, which would encourage individuals to choose healthy lifestyles. I think that's the conversation we need to have, and I'm so thankful that we're doing this study.
I know that both of the other presenters spoke as well to the fact that health care funding has been focused on treating diseases rather than prevention.
The question that I want to pose is to Ms. Nesdale-Tucker. It was around the comments that you made regarding health literacy. You said that Canada can and must do a better job in protecting our children, and obviously we know that by doing that we will be making investments in the future of our health care system. I just want to give you an opportunity to talk a little bit more about health literacy, and perhaps the strategy that you are implementing in order to do that.