I have a comment and a couple of questions I'd like to ask.
We looked at a motion we passed on establishing a national database for all the different ways health facilities are reducing wait times within the public system. There are all kinds of different ways, but it was to be a national database that people can look at.
In a way, this sounds to me, perhaps in a more coordinated way, not to be so much a plan, but a place I can go if I teach in Hall's Prairie Elementary School and want to find out what I can do in my school. I can call up one of the 17 assistant superintendents Surrey school district has, but I want to go on the website. I want to know what's happening across the country in schools to make kids healthier and more active--so a database of information. That seems to be an ideal way for the federal government to take leadership, because it's a perfect place to gather that and then to make sure it goes back out to people.
I would hope it would be a database that would meet the same criteria Dr. Bennett asked about that you could put on the same thing that as a mum.... I wrote down my grandson's school's name because it reminds me that I'm going to go now and find out. So I want to go somewhere where it says to me as a grandmother or to my daughter as his mum, who obviously would be more responsible to do that--I try not to take over--what his school should look like to be healthy, right? It may even be around the physical environment as well, but what's the healthy school? It's a place where I can go as a mum or a dad or a caregiver to look at what that is.
A lot of initiatives that happen in schools in this country have been started by parents or it's the parent who's going to lobby for money to help continue to do these things. I couldn't do that as a mum unless I had evidence and information to do it with, other than just thinking and believing, which doesn't work. So it's a place where both professionals--whatever that means--and parents could go. I don't even think it necessarily has to be a separate.... Maybe it's a link site or something that gathers information.
I wanted to ask a question. I read somewhere in one of the handouts--and Heather referred to this as well--that what you've recognized is that it goes beyond the school. So I'm wondering if you could speak to, other than philosophically, where does this go? What does that mean, goes beyond the school--to where, other than esoterically?