Thank you.
To that point, when I think about my son, I often talk about the idea of mitigating challenges to unlock potential, just like we all have our challenges and want help to deal with our challenges so that we can recognize our full potential.
As I think about inclusive education and action steps that we've talked about.... I'll throw forward a brainstorming idea. You have this Washington Group tool that helps to assess.
Naser, I'm going to come to you on this.
Let's say we put a lot of money into community health workers with World Vision, Plan, Save the Children, UNICEF and other organizations that are out there on the ground, meeting families and meeting kids all around the world...already funded by taxpayers and organizations from around the world.
Imagine if, potentially, we could teach those community health workers to understand what physical, intellectual or developmental disability might look like and give them the tool to help do some assessment of some of these families, so that you can give the families or the individuals, to some degree, an explanation of what's happening. Of course, it's not too much of a stretch to then imagine what school or some form of inclusion might look like, once you've generated some data at that individual level—and then the aggregate level, of course.
From my understanding, StatsCan is a part of the Washington Group. I think they are coming to the committee next week, so we'll get a chance to ask about the tool.
When I think about IDRC and the function that IDRC has, it's a research function, an information function and an evidence function. Therefore, as you listen to that kind of brainstorming, it's not a stretch to imagine a place where you put a research function on top of that to gather and assess that evidence, and see what incremental next steps could be taken quickly to generate meaningful action right now, or is it?