My short answer would be yes, it goes on, and it goes on more and more. We certainly understand the interconnectedness, not only of bringing together the different government departments. As we move toward income assistance, we very much link it with both our department and HRSDC, and also with Health Canada, to deal with all of the mental health and well-being issues.
One of the other things we're doing more and more, besides connecting the different government departments through both formal and informal mechanisms—and certainly we could formalize that and restructure it better than we have—is to move in a very integrated fashion with the provinces. They are the first line of service providers with the expertise, and they have changed their programs to be proactive and preventative.
For some of the issues being touched upon, including children and family services, we've moved toward tripartite agreements. We're working with the provinces and first nations on issues of cultural sensitivity in service provision, and we're bringing in our colleagues from Public Safety and Health Canada so that we're working in a holistic way.
I read the deliberations of the last committee regarding the ongoing complexity of these issues and the dangers of not being able to attack this in a multi-pronged way. There was a lot of focus on the justice side.
More and more, as we move toward the enhanced prevention approach, these examples I talked about—bringing it into the schools, moving with education reform, dealing with how we get to the health, education, child and family services, and the family supports, and frankly, getting rid of some of the barriers to things like access to training and income assistance.... We have, through good policy intent over the years, created barriers. In some instances—for example, if someone wants to improve their ability to go off and work, or to get the supports they might need for mental health issues, or to gain access to training, or to move off reserve to get some of that training—we have created some of those barriers through other policies, like having housing and housing supplements only on reserve, so there is an inability to move off reserve. We're trying to address those through education and training, and through moving with things like the—