With regard to the federal government, I laid most of it out in the recommendations. A very important thing that we need the federal government to support is the national strategy, because there is no system for adult learning in our country. The benefit of the strategy is that we then get to see, across the country, things that work in small and medium-sized enterprises, that work with labour. It's not piecemeal.
That's been the biggest downfall of literacy. It's not that the solutions don't exist within our country. They do. There has been great literacy work going on in this country for years and years, but it has always been under-resourced and piecemeal. The good work that is happening in B.C. doesn't always filter across the country.
This is an important piece of the Literacy Coalition: that we come together under the Movement for Canadian Literacy and we do that sharing. We share resources. We share ideas and things that work and things that don't work. That's why the strategy is vastly important.
The strategy would also figure out what all the different roles are. There has always been that conflict over federal jurisdiction and provincial jurisdiction around education, but as I said, back in Brian Mulroney's day, he recognized how it filters off and affects the country vastly and that there needs to be that intervention. The federal government can really play a big role in talking to provinces and territories about how they work better. We definitely don't want duplication, but we feel that talking needs to happen.
There are really good relationships happening across the country around literacy. The provinces really pick up their end of it and then look to the federal government to pick up the other end. We just need to make sure that filters across the country.
Another thing that's really important in the federal government and across the provincial governments is that literacy needs to be looked at across departments. Literacy does affect justice. It does affect immigration. It does affect health. The more we look through the literacy lens, the more each of us can take on our respective roles in addressing that.
Those are two very key things for the federal government to do.