Thank you for the question, and yes, I'm very optimistic. I wouldn't come into work every day if I weren't. I think there are some things in the context of the next couple of years that are encouraging.
The first is--and I hate to sound as though I'm sucking up to the Auditor General--I think this is a very good road map, and I agree entirely with Ronnie's comment that all four pieces fit together. The legislation can provide the standards. It can create bodies like school boards. It can stabilize funding so people can plan and so on. So all of the pieces can give you some comfort, I think, that results would improve if we went down that road.
The other encouraging sign in my tenure, which is only four or five years, is that there's been a massive increase in the engagement of provinces. They used to sit back and...with all due respect, the attitude was that they're Indians so they're a federal problem. That is just not happening anymore. They're all willing to engage, to put their people and sometimes their money and their experts on the table. That's very encouraging. It's the private sector, universities, foundations, and all kinds of people. I get a call every month from somebody saying they want to get involved and asking who they should talk to and how they can help.
I think that through mobilizing multiple partners around this and hopefully keeping this a relatively non-partisan issue, this Parliament really can make historic breakthroughs.