Thank you, Madam Chair.
I've been hearing a number of things. I can appreciate the concerns around core funding versus temporary funding. Certainly it's not just the federal government. I worked in the provincial system, and I really came to be very leery of.... It's great to have project funding that builds things. It's great to have project funding that pilots something, but it really is tough once you have a program that is achieving success but it's only for five years. Again, that is throughout the system. You almost wonder if you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound if you have programs that have proven their value. I know it happens provincially.
I would be curious about two things. I heard “train the trainer”, integrating the traditional with the modern-day, and certainly in health care the chronic disease self-management program that was then adopted had some great success. Is that something that has been envisioned for some of the more northern remote communities where you have lay leaders who have been trained? Have you had any success as it relates to violence and abuse?