Some of the most important work we did in our project was around community capacity-building. We looked at aboriginal communities in B.C. and recognized that a top-down approach wasn't going to work. You had to do it from the bottom up. The Canadian Cancer Society led this effort with community development folks. Within those aboriginal communities, they decided what was most important to them to focus on, whether it was youth leadership, community gardens, or some kind of healthy eating program. There were some really wonderful outcomes from that initiative.
The challenge is—and this has come up in our conference—that Canada is country of pilot projects. We do all these things for two and a half or three years and say, “Isn't this great?” Then the money is gone. Therefore, we need to have greater continuity of funding for a lot of the most promising and best practices.