Ms. van der Meer, you've been a popular person today, because literacy is important. One of my favourite sayings is, “Readers are leaders”, and it's certainly true. I was really struck by your statistic that 42% of Canadians have low literacy. That's a stunning indictment of our education system. By law, every child has to attend school up to the age of 16, yet nearly half of Canadians, you're saying, in spite of that, have low literacy. That just blows me away, as a former teacher, and I find that extremely disturbing.
My question for you is how you fix that. If after ten years of school, 40% of Canadians have low literacy, how can you possibly fix that?