Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the witnesses.
Mr. VanGorder, I'll begin with you, sir.
Thank you for the work that the association does. We have an outstanding CARP chapter where I am, down here in London, Ontario. It serves London and Middlesex and it's been great to get to know that organization and its leadership. I know that they've been wonderful advocates for seniors in our area.
I want to ask you to expand on your comments on long-term care. You spoke about obviously the tragedy in long-term care and the need to do better. The budget that was just unveiled devotes very significant funding of $3 billion over five years to helping establish national standards in long-term care, of course in partnership with provinces, since it's their area of responsibility.
I wonder if you could speak about the need to establish long-term care standards.