What it would do is create minimum standards for all levels of health care and build back the trust that Canadians have in our health care system.
We all hear about the ER closures everywhere and long waits for surgeries. We're seeing a diminution of trust. Creating a patient bill of rights would give them back that trust, would bring back guarantees with regard to staffing levels and would bring back, in long-term care, hours of care. It would really help the provinces with standards.
That's what we've been saying to the federal government for a long time. We're too small a country to have 13 systems. We have to have national standards, and patients need to know what these standards are—and that's through their own rights.