Just very briefly, Mr. Chairman, we provided this briefing to the standing committee earlier, so I will just repeat that the four main areas of investment will be: parenting and family support; pregnancy, birth and infancy; early childhood care; and learning in community supports.

Some of the specific actions being considered include universal screening for FAS/FAE, home visitation programs, curriculum-based education programs for teens about parenting, resource kits universally provided for all parents at pregnancy and other critical parent-child transition points, community resource centre pilot projects which could integrate existing early childhood programs so that they would be more effective for children and their families.

In terms of the relation with ECE, there are certain components of the Early Childhood Development Plan that obviously would be purely a health initiative. For example, prenatal screening for FAS/FAE. On those types of initiatives, we are working with health care professionals. For example, we are working closely with Dr. Nicole Chatel, a pediatrician with long experience in FAS/FAE on the pilot projects on the universal screening tool for fetal alcohol syndrome effect.

With respect to those projects which could be integrated, that is where we are working jointly with ECE to look at how we could enhance existing early childhood programs that ECE is currently running in the communities. In some of those communities, as you know, we also are funding a number of programs ourselves, plus the federal government is funding programs like Aboriginal Head Start. The integration aspect is one that I think is going to be a real challenge for us, because even our two departments are not the only partners. We will be laying out in the plan how we will work towards an integrated programming at the community level, which both departments believe is so critical to advance the effectiveness of the dollars that are out there.

That is a very quick overview. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.