Thank you very much for the question.
I can tell you that the Public Health Agency of Canada does lead a family violence prevention initiative where 15 departments come together. There are three objectives to that initiative: one is promoting public awareness about the risk factors of family violence and the need for public involvement in responding to it; a second is to strengthen the capacity of health, housing, criminal justice, and social systems to respond; and the third is to support data collection and research and evaluation efforts.
The role of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development specific to family violence prevention is through our family violence prevention program. We also work with stakeholders, such as the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence and the Native Women's Association of Canada.
We do make efforts at integration and coordination. It's an area where we can always do better, particularly in an area as important as family violence prevention.
With respect to the related issues around housing and education, clean drinking water, child and family services, we're now working in five provinces to introduce prevention measures, so we're not always looking at protection and removing children from the home. We're working on many fronts in the department and with colleagues and with provinces, because social services is largely a domain where provinces either have jurisdiction or have tremendous expertise that they can build on.
So there are efforts under way to ensure coordination and set priorities for coming years, but as I say, it's also an area where we can and must always improve.