Yes, we're convinced that there has been violence in the health care sector for a number of years. We're certain there has been a surge in violence of all kinds, those that were named earlier.
I'll speak mainly about the province of Quebec. Organizational violence has been rising in recent years as a result of the reforms, but it's also related to patients, who represent increasingly serious quality-of-care cases. Care is more complex because the population is aging, and we have a lot of mental health problems too. At the same time, we've also had enormous cuts to the health system in recent years, and those cuts have resulted in personnel reductions. Care professionals are at times left to their own devices during meal times and night shifts. Sometimes one nurse or nursing assistant works the night shift caring for 150 or 160 long-term care patients.
We try to be proactive and, at times, to reduce the use of medication so patients can recover their cognitive faculties to a greater degree, but that means professionals must be there with the patients to actually provide that care.