Absolutely. Thank you for that.
In Finland, obviously, as you described, they do have a significant challenge right at their doorstep, and it's not too far from ours as well, if you think about it. They took action immediately. In their model, as opposed to Canada.... Our policy for education may come from a federal level, but it's delivered at the provincial and territorial levels. It's very difficult to appropriately govern from Canada as Finland does.
Similar to their model, we need to come up with methods. I'm not suggesting that this committee does it or that I'm proposing any policy methods to drive from federal down to provinces and territories, but I'm suggesting that something needs to get done to normalize that kind of information, as we normalize mathematics, physics, science and language.
To that effect, Finland did an amazing job on that, teaching kindergartners how to do this by giving them silly examples to real examples, as you would to any child. It helped them grow. Even the elderly and the retired, having a conversation at a coffee shop, who would have difficulty with technology and receiving information from their friends and their neighbours, can then really consider what they're hearing and say, “Do you know what? Let me look that up. I know how to do that, because it's now part of my ecosystem, my living and my being.” It transformed. It took a decade.