I am Diane Richler responding.
Thank you very much.
I guess there are a couple of things. First of all, in Canada, the new disability benefit is going to make a difference for families. That's something very important, and Rob Jenkins made reference earlier to work that UNICEF is doing around social protection. In the same way that human rights are indivisible, the rights of people with disabilities are indivisible. I think it's really critical to look at the investments in social protection. Right now, most countries don't take into account the extra costs of disability. Whether they are issues that were raised by Ms. Damoff in terms of children who have to help care for parents, whether it's the need for prosthetic devices that aren't covered or whether it's the need for special materials, there are extra costs and some of the work that UNICEF is doing will help.
I'm going to take advantage of the floor for just one second to mention something related to an earlier question of yours. In francophone countries—this is may be a delicate thing to say because I know this is on the record—many of the francophone resource people come from countries that have a much more rigid approach to education. Canada does not. The approach to inclusion in Quebec, New Brunswick and elsewhere in Canada has a lot to offer internationally.
One problem we've seen as Inclusion International is that, when the francophone resource people come from countries that have a very rigid program, where kids are streamed at a very early age and where kids with disabilities are separated from their peers who don't have a disability, it sets the pattern. That's how the people in those countries are trained.
Again, Canada can change that if we play a role. Right now, we're not there, so other people are taking the lead and we're not influencing francophone countries.