Thank you for your question.
I'll speak to some of the programming we have at the Public Health Agency, in particular the maternal and child health programs I referenced earlier. In those cases, we work very closely with provinces and territories. We have a number of joint management committees that determine the priorities for the programming dollars so that we don't have a situation in which there is overlap in what the federal level is investing in and what provinces and territories are investing in. In particular we try to align our investment dollars so there aren't any major gaps.
I think I mentioned in my remarks that our focus tends to be on the most vulnerable and on where we have found there just isn't enough provincial and territorial programming to go around to reach some of those more vulnerable populations.
In terms of innovative approaches, this sounds pretty bureaucratic, but having those joint management committees in which you work together with provincial and territorial colleagues to set priorities has tended to work over the last 20 years for these programs.