Thank you very much for the question.
We initiated a large-scale study that we just completed this summer. It was over a year of research. We found that across the country—and yes, acutely in rural and remote regions, but in urban areas as well—every single expert we spoke to as well as the over 3,200 social workers who we surveyed all said the same thing. They all said they are suffering under their caseloads. Our data showed that 75% of them reported that unmanageable workloads were critical issues. Due to stress or vicarious trauma, which is tied to burnout, 45% of them left. Just as one social worker in La Loche couldn't serve clients effectively, 72% of them said that administrative responsibilities prevented them from spending adequate one-on-one time with their clients.
That's to say that we don't necessarily have the exact data on how many. What would help us have that data would be a caseload study to show what the ideal ratio would be so that we could say, “Do you know how many La Loche needs? La Loche needs five, because there's this many people who are needing care.” We need that data.