Absolutely. I think what we need to do is delve a bit deeper into what the protective factors were or what actually helps a child get through a crisis like this. Lots of funding went out to research studies. Those results will come in over the next year or two, so we don't have a good picture yet, but we do know that children who, for instance, maintained routines in their families and families that had access to technologies for kids seemed to do much better. Children who maintained connections with their extended family members seemed to do much better. Some of those hints are there.
I might also say, because I study resilience, that there's a fascinating emerging conversation—and I say this very cautiously, because the pandemic was horrific for our economy and many people died—about the huge number of lessons learned, things that we should have known were coming. For instance, we saw, especially among adolescents, more accessible counselling services. Adolescents hate coming to counselling generally, but many more would engage and many of them would in fact feel much more comfortable coming to a therapist or seeing a mental health specialist online. This is anecdotal but it's what my colleagues are saying.
Also, in my own home province of Nova Scotia, for instance, we discovered—surprise—that only 93% of our kids had access to technology at home to access the Internet. That was remedied through school programs and government programs to make sure that kids had access to that technology and to Internet connections.
Some of this simply taught us that we had the capacity to create environments that would help children to be much more successful, and that, I think, is really encouraging.