Our cadre and continuum of services include prenatal programming, healthy babies, Head Start, youth programming, mental health and wellness, lifelong care, diabetes clinics, and drug and alcohol prevention, all of which are vital programs that help address the spiralling costs of health care in Canada.

As mentioned in the report, those programs are the United States department of agriculture, the USDA rural housing service, the United States department of energy, both the office of energy efficiency and conservation block grants and also the state energy program, the U.S. department of housing and urban development, the office of community, planning and development, both the community development block grants recovery and the public housing capital fund, and the U.S. environmental protection agency, clean water and drinking water state revolving funds.

If we were to compare the Moncton Headstart program that Claudette Bradshaw started to the healthystart program in Hawaii, we would find that the Headstart program produces enormous bang for a buck, $7 to $8 for every $1 invested.

By Decision 89/687/EEC , the Council adopted a programme of options specific to the remote and insular nature of the French overseas departments (POSEIDOM) in accordance with the Community's policy of assistance for the most remote regions. The purpose of the programme is to facilitate the economic and social development of those regions and enable them to benefit from the advantages of the single market of which they are an integral part despite the objective factors leaving them geographically and economically isolated. The programme calls for the CAP to be applied in those regions and provides for special measures to be adopted. In pa ...[+++]rticular, it provides for measures to improve the conditions in which agricultural products are produced and marketed in those departments and to mitigate the effects of their exceptional geographical situation and constraints as since recognised in Article 299(2) of the Treaty, when determining the conditions for the application of Community measures in the French overseas departments .

By Decision 89/687/EEC , the Council adopted a programme of options specific to the remote and insular nature of the French overseas departments (POSEIDOM) in accordance with the Community's policy of assistance for the most remote regions. The purpose of the programme is to facilitate the economic and social development of those regions and enable them to benefit from the advantages of the single market of which they are an integral part despite the objective factors leaving them geographically and economically isolated. The programme calls for the CAP to be applied in those regions and provides for special measures to be adopted. In pa ...[+++]rticular, it provides for measures to improve the conditions in which agricultural products are produced and marketed in those departments and to mitigate the effects of their exceptional geographical situation and constraints as since recognised in Article 299(2) of the Treaty.

There is $119.4 million for nine departments and agencies for separation programs for public service employees such as the Early Retirement Incentive and the Early Departure Incentive, including $61 million for the National Defence Civilian and Forces Reduction Plan.