There are certainly differences between provinces. But the problem of readiness is more or less the same everywhere. I mentioned that one child in four has problems when entering school.
We need one system to analyze and evaluate readiness. At the moment, we have four different systems across Canada. The response will be different in each province, even in each region of a province, because the situation is quite different in each region.
As to the question of the involvement of community organizations, it is critical. That is why we have the composite learning index at the CCL, the Canadian Council on Learning. It is really at neighbourhood level, community level; it is not even provincial level because there are so many differences and so many critical responses at community level.
Lastly, the school-family-community interaction is, once again, critical. Think of the school drop-out problem. The solution does not just lie with the school; it lies with the community as a whole. It really is everyone's problem.