The ratification of the convention really is evidence to us that the Government of Canada is committed to and understands the rights of all people in this country. It's a human rights convention; that's really what it is.
So for us it becomes that knowing and doing gap. In other words, we know what inclusion looks like, we know how to support people in a way that they can have a valued and inclusive life, yet we don't have the monitoring mechanisms in place to be able to create the intervention at a point where the vision of inclusion is not being honoured and where people in fact are not having the opportunities in this country that they should have and could have. I say again that for us it really is that knowing and doing gap. We know what to do, we know how to do it, but the monitoring mechanisms are not there.
There was a conversation before with Mr. Savage about the problem of young people graduating from school and not having an inclusive place to go in our communities. They end up in congregated settings. They end up in sheltered workshops and unemployed and understimulated. That's unnecessary. We know what to do. We need the monitoring mechanisms in place to ensure that the appropriate settings are there and that the provincial and federal governments are doing what they can in order to bring the UN convention to life.