I have to call on personal experience here. In the last year, both of my kids have been diagnosed as gifted and with learning disabilities. I have had a new understanding of what our parents and their children face in our school system. It is underfunded.
The children are not being connected when they have learning disabilities, anxiety, or any challenge that is outside that middle child. The middle child works well within the learning environment that caters to the middle. We have good results with those children. However, in our system there are an awful lot of children with ADHD and anxiety disorders and learning disabilities. They are not being connected.
There is a very important legal case called Moore v. British Columbia. The Supreme Court of Canada basically said that we need to provide the ramp for these learning-disabled children to access their charter right to education. I do not believe from my personal experience and after having spoken to so many families in the province of British Columbia that we are providing the ramp.
The early learning opportunities are good, and we need child care in this province. I believe that we need a child care plan to give families safe spaces for their children, and maybe that will allow those children to also learn. There's a relationship between those things. We also need to make sure that the children who are not on that even trajectory through the school system are given the support they need to have equal access to opportunities.