Similarly, in Europe I believe there are upwards of three to five years in various countries such as the Netherlands that give value to parenting and to motherhood. It's like Louise's experience. The help the Canadian government gives to mothers is not going to help her children currently, but there are many other programs, including Invest in Kids in Ontario and the western provinces, Best Start in Prince Edward Island, and Healthy Beginnings in Nova Scotia, which are aspects of early childhood intervention.
Some of those programs have universal screening and assistance with no measurement needed. The models are following the healthy child program in Hawaii, where parenting supports, peer supports, can come into homes and truly help parents learn to parent without the stress of wondering where they're going to get the next meal for their child.
There's so much more we can do that really centres on early childhood intervention and that will have reams of outcomes down the road, but we cannot measure it immediately. That's the problem. We cannot see the outcomes immediately. It will take a while, but it's been proven, so we just need to adopt it.