One suggestion I made in a piece in Policy Options in April is that for health, we have an institute for health indicators that helps us assess. People who are in there are from the federal government, municipal governments, and provincial governments, as well as health care providers. They collect administrative data and survey data to get an idea of what our health system is doing for Canadians. We don't have an equivalent institute for social indicators.
For me, as a researcher who focuses on social policy, it's so hard to see those different layers and the impact on people. I would argue that this is where, given the challenges you have as a federal government in not meddling too much in provincial business, one role could be to provide at least the information that is out there so that we can see how these programs interact. That would mean sources of funding to such an institute, which the government does for health in Canada.