The Canadian Nurses Association is very clear about the importance of investing upstream in terms of the health of Canadians, so we pay a lot of attention to the social determinants of health. Those include education, employability, housing, water, and all of those basic infrastructure supports, and literacy is a key one.
Probably eight years ago, the World Health Organization released research that showed that for every additional year of education that girl children had around the world, the teen pregnancy rate dropped by 10%. That's far more effective than any other tool that we use within the health care system. We have evidence, then, that demonstrates that we need to invest in education, and literacy is a key part of that.
So we absolutely support that. We know that's such an important determinant of health. It does relate to income, but there's a definite translation into the health status of citizens right around the world.