Obviously the question is very complex, and there are a number of factors that would affect children who require these services. I would add, though--and I'm not sure that we've actually explicitly said it in the report or that we would be able to demonstrate proof--that we have to question if the way the funding from the federal government is given to agencies does not itself have an impact upon the way services are provided, in that the federal government will pay the costs for children in care but will not necessarily provide sufficient funding for preventative care. So the way to get care for children is to take them into care.
The way the funding is actually done may have a perverse effect to actually have increased the number of children who are in care. Perhaps if the funding formula is reviewed and takes into account the way provincial standards have changed in the way these services are delivered in provinces, one could perhaps question whether there would actually be more children and their families receiving preventative services, and then those children would not be taken into care.