Do you know what? We're the only association in all of Canada for support workers. We have guesstimates; that's the best we can do. In Ontario alone, we've guesstimated there are approximately 135,000 personal support workers with only 52,000 working now. If you look at the mass amount we have in Ontario versus New Brunswick, let's say, that number is a lot lower for support workers and PSWs because the province is smaller. What we're seeing is a huge decrease in PSWs, period. We're seeing schools closing across Canada that actually trained them to become support workers. We are past crisis. We are in the red when it comes to the front line of health care in Canada.
On May 14th, 2019. See this statement in context.