I'd be glad to, and I'll keep this brief.
As the federal public health agency, a big part of our role is surveillance of chronic disease. That means we're working across the country with the provinces and territories, with StatsCan, and CIHI, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, to provide good information on how chronic disease rates are changing in our country and where there are pockets of problems.
The reason we do surveillance is not so that we can talk about a lot of statistics; it's about targeting interventions where they can do the most good. It's also about helping our stakeholders—because we work with partners all the time—to know where their interventions can be best placed to make a difference. That's a foundation of public health, as you know, and that's one of the things we do at the agency and the centre.
The other really important thing is around identifying best practices and working with our partners to scale those up. That's an important federal role. You can imagine that if every jurisdiction across the country were trying to identify best practices there would be so much duplication; everybody would be doing the same thing. We have one place where we can devote our expertise and resources to pulling together what is known about what works in chronic disease prevention.
That's not an easy question to answer. That comes back to what colleagues have said about intervention science and research, and investing in that. That's the only way we're ever really going to know what works in communities. We're all different, and our communities are all different, in chronic disease prevention.
Those are the two areas where, as a federal agency, we're adding value to prevention. We're identifying best practices and working with partners to scale those up in a way that prevents us from being inefficient in the use of our resources to do the right things that are working to prevent chronic disease for Canadians.