Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, through the chief medical health officer's shop, we do work on prevention and health promotion. We also work in conjunction with active living and healthy living initiatives with Education, Culture and Employment. We work with MACA, as well, and Education, Culture and Employment as it pertains to youth; trying to work on the prevention side, active living, healthy choices, right choices. We're also part of the Pacific Northwest FASD Partnership because it is a concern clearly across the country, but in the northwest it's a big issue and there are benefits to partnerships. The research is going to cover a number of areas, but as of yet there is not a clear, simple way to diagnose or assess an individual that may have FASD. As far as I understand, it's a very complicated, time-consuming process where you have to do family histories and a whole number of things. There is not a simple test that can tell you if a child has FASD or an individual or to what degree. You have to try and sort that out.
So there is great benefit to us if they can come up with a way that can indicate even if there is FASD present, and then it would affect how we respond to the individual in question. Right now if they have behaviour problems, what motivates it? Is it just because they're a rebellious teenager or because they have some other genetic issues that they were born with; for example FASD? Sorting those things out requires time, which is why we've invested and we're part of that partnership as well. Thank you.