Thank you.
We do have specific and very detailed research. The document you have in front of you relates to the child welfare situation. That is referring to the Wen:de series of reports for first nations child welfare agencies. It speaks to the main missing component, and that is the ability of first nations agencies to provide prevention.
The Minister of Indian Affairs recently announced $15.3 million for the province of Alberta first nations child welfare agencies. That is in line with the numbers we have come up with through the Wen:de research, which I believe in the first year calls for something in the neighbourhood of $109 million--I don't have the numbers in front of me.
When it comes to child care, we do not have as good an evidentiary base to target the amount, although we do talk about the number of communities that have no regulated child care whatsoever. With child welfare, the numbers are very clear; they are a little less so in the area of child care.
We're looking at the need to get a more coordinated approach to the provision of children's services. We have Health Canada doing something with head start. We have HRSDC doing something specifically with child care. We have INAC doing something in Ontario and Alberta with child care and the urban and reserve program. One of the things we're certainly trying to do, which we were trying to do within the ELCC initiative, is to get a more coordinated approach to the provision of these programs and expand them, as well. The decision to look just at those programs in terms of ELCC was taken unilaterally. There certainly are other programs that could probably be lumped in that could help support the family in a more comprehensive and efficient manner.