Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will comment on the two matters, the honourable Member brought up. For situations where you have a crisis situation in the community for whatever reasons, traumatic experience that impacts the whole community, there are resources available. Again, it is not at every community level. Certainly to support the caregivers in the community, there are going to be regional resources, whether it is in the form of psychologists, suicide prevention specialists, alcohol or drug specialists, whatever they hold at a regional level to provide some of those supports for those types of incidents which require broader and more specific involvement in some of the counselling, debriefing and support issues for communities.
On the matter of streamlining the process for communities to access funds for programs and proposals that are submitted, I quite frankly, cannot see how it could work more effectively and be more streamlined if we were to try to do that as a government versus through a board. The board is there and right in the region. The communities have representation directly on the board, the CEO and senior staff are a lot more accessible to communities in the area they serve. This was the whole problem our Health Canada System is having with a centralized headquarters and having all the decisions come to a central point and being backlogged based on the volumes and resources not being as readily accessible. I would be really hesitant to go back toward that type of a system. Our philosophy, Mr. Chairman, has been to push out the decision-making authority, resources, financial and human resources to the regional level because we feel it would be more appropriate and a lot more responsive to our communities by having that type of structure, Mr. Chair. Thank you.