Probably one of the things the institute is best known for is our polling. We've been doing polling on Canadians' knowledge and appreciation of Canadian history for 12 years now. Over the course of those 12 years—and I think I presented this the last time we were here—we've moved the dial forward on Canadian military history. Knowledge of Canadian military history has increased over the past 12 years.
Knowledge in other areas of Canadian history, such as political history, has gone down. There's more work to do, but our efforts are paying off. Efforts like the Year of the Veteran and the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge do pay off in the public consciousness.
In working with the provinces, we do advocacy work first of all. We've talked about the Canadian history report card, and that was a direct effort to lobby for changes to the curriculum, to have the teaching of Canadian history taken more seriously by every province. We assigned grades to each one. We also have a project, benchmarks for historical thinking, that works directly with the provinces to improve the quality of history education in the curriculum by using primary sources, by using notions of historical thinking.
As a very large organization, we have a number of tools and a number of levers that we can pull. Working with the provinces is clearly one. The most efficient route we have found is working directly with teachers.