— Investing in health and social infrastructure which contributes to national, regional and local development, reducing inequalities in terms of health status, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social, cultural and recreational services and the transition from institutional to community-based services.

— Investing in health and social infrastructure which contributes to national, regional and local development, reducing inequalities in terms of health status, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social, cultural and recreational services and the transition from institutional to community-based services.

— Investing in health and social infrastructure which contributes to national, regional and local development, reducing inequalities in terms of health status, promoting social inclusion through improved access to social, cultural and recreational services and thetransition from institutional to community-based services.

They have their own agency, Institut national d'excellence en services sociaux.

increasing the efficiency of programmes to boost employment, with an emphasis on lifelong learning and on combating all forms of discrimination in all socio-economic sectors; finalising implementation of the reform of health services by eliminating discrepancies in territorial coverage and quality of medical services, modernising equipment in hospitals and clinics, improving collection mechanisms and redistribution of collected funds, strengthening the management, monitoring and evaluation of all the different types of care; intensifying measures to eliminate non-attendance in compulsory education, improve the adaptability of vocationa ...[+++]l and technical education to labour market demands and promote lifelong learning; covering the need for emergency and social housing and improving housing conditions in specific areas or for specific social categories; implementing the new national system of social assistance and social services, gradually improving the guaranteed minimum income, the support granted to families with children and the public pension system to ensure the elimination of severe poverty; finalising implementation of the Government strategy for the improvement of the Roma situation and in particular eliminating cases of people with no ID papers, supporting training and employment, education, health care, housing and infrastructure development programmes which promote the social inclusion of the Roma community and continue to fight against discrimination.

Mr. Angelo Nikias (National Director, Government Relations, International Liaison, Canadian National Institute for the Blind): As my colleague indicated, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind collaborates with the Government of Canada, with other social partners, and especially with blind Canadians themselves—by which we mean people who are totally blind, people who experience any degree of vision loss, and people who are d ...[+++]eaf-blind.