Thank you, Dr. Tomkins.
My next question is for Ms. Wilson.
Ms. Wilson, the former Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan, famously stated, “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” He talked a lot about its ability to fight poverty and to be “a building block for development”. I'll make a full disclosure: My partner is a researcher and a speech-language pathologist who is studying literacy.
I'll ask the same question of you: Do kids in lower-income families have the same outcomes as their middle-class and wealthier neighbours when it comes to literacy and the determinants of health related to reading and hearing?