You've touched on an important point. My approach on working with governments....
I'll point out this. The reason Michael Coteau is seconding this from your side is because I've known him for a long time. I've known him for a long time because when the Wynne government was getting things wrong on autism, I reached out and helped them behind the scenes, just like I do with any provincial government of any stripe.
In my experience, provincial governments always start on the autism file by getting it wrong. Always. My hope is that a national strategy helps to alleviate that situation, so that when a new government is elected, whatever the political stripe, that government has an evidence base that it can turn to and an expert base that it can turn to that includes autistic Canadians, researchers, the health community, families, stakeholder groups and a community that comes together to find common ground and communicate it in a way that makes sense to governments.
Too often, right now, governments come into a context that is politically polarized in every way, but in the autism community, it can be hard to make sense of what the evidence base is right now. I think a national strategy would work to bring that evidence base together.
The other thing I'll say about provincial governments broadly, though, is that every one of them wants to get it right. I've found that when I'm having conversations with them behind the scenes—I tend to have those conversations behind the scenes with an attitude toward helping—there is a real spirit of wanting to get it right.
This is what I'm hoping. This is where I think a national strategy comes into play in helping in that regard.