Definitely there are things the federal government can do, and I agree with my colleague Chris Jones here, because the schools are very critical in this. You have all the children in the schools, and if we're going to take physical literacy seriously, we have to measure it.
I think back to the Canada fitness awards. I was involved in those when they were starting up back in the sixties. We were measuring who could reach certain targets. A lot of kids have great memories of that, of how hard they tried to get their gold badge. But for some children, and probably a significant proportion, those were a negative experience because they couldn't achieve it.
I think we have to bring the awards back again and set those bars so kids know that they can improve and that they should be trying to improve their own fitness levels. We also have to recognize the most improved, and we have to look at programs that are specifically designed for those kids who fall through the cracks, who are coming into the education system already unfit and overweight and who haven't toddled as toddlers. Those kids exist today.
We need to have a two-pronged approach. If we do that, I think there is a role for the federal government to play in terms of writing the tests and putting together the program that all the school districts across the country would be free to buy into if they want to. Certainly we've heard that people are looking for this.
You know that from your experience, Chris.