Okay. Maybe I'll answer that one.
My name is Rachel Garber. I'm the executive director of the Townshippers' Association.
Regarding the caseload of the youth protection centre in the western part of the Eastern Townships, this was discussed in some depth at a recent youth seminar. The intervenors around the table agreed that a big part of the very sharp increase in the caseload of English-speaking clients, which actually proportionally doubled in one year, could be attributed directly to the networking project that the Townshippers' Association is leading. The workers were more aware of the problems in the Eastern Townships' English-speaking community. They were more visible to them, so they signalled those problems more often to the youth protection workers. The problems were always there, but now they were more aware of them.
Part of that was because of the knowledge base that the Townshippers' Association has developed and has disseminated to our public partners. Another really important key element is the very strong willingness on the part of the health and social service providers to collaborate, to really look at the situation of the English-speaking community, and to provide the services to the best of their ability. Without that collaboration, and without the very strong support of the Community Health and Social Services Network, which provided a large part of that knowledge base about health determinants in our community, we would not have been able to achieve anything. Those were two very strong key factors.
So actually, the increased caseload of the youth protection board is good news.