In particular, we don't have a means of disseminating interesting or promising practices. We have some excellent practices in almost every area of social policy in various regions of the country, but we don't have the means of spreading them from one part of the country to the other. People don't know in one province what the province next door is doing. This is true even within regions.
Secondly, we don't have shared benchmarks and targets, and this is probably the most important consideration. In education, this is why parents like report cards. It gives a sense of progress. You know what your child is supposed to be able to attain in any particular year, and you're able to assess from a report card whether you're getting there.
Monsieur Lessard was talking about Europe. Europe has, for education and training, 16 indicators and benchmarks that all countries in Europe accept, and there are reports on the performance of every single one of those countries with respect to those benchmarks. Moreover, five targets are held in common across all of the European Union. On an annual or biannual basis, they have to report on whether they're meeting those targets.
If you don't have targets in social policy, what is it that you're going to accomplish in a particular timeframe? It's very difficult to move toward the solutions we need. But high expectations tend to yield better results than low expectations.