Thank you to all the witnesses for their presentations.
I want to first acknowledge and say thank you to the health care workers in our system from CUPE, HEU, and also the Canadian Association for Long Term Care, and to those who are not around this table. You do tremendous work in our community each and every day. It's fair enough to say that every worker deserves to go to a safe work environment, and this is what we're talking about.
I think all of the presenters talked about a standardized level of care that is needed across the country. Related to that is a standardized level of safety and how we implement that from the federal government's side. How do we go about ensuring that all the provinces have the mechanisms in place for, for example, staffing ratios?
I'll start with you, Ms. Lyle, and then go to Ms. Brookfield and then I'll come to the folks on the screen.
If you can, just list some examples of where you think the federal government should take action in bringing in a national strategy. Data collection was one thing I heard about. Are there other items that you think are a priority that the federal government needs to act on?