Okay, thank you.
I'll ask this of you because this is, again, an issue with the nurses' union, and I will ask Ms. Van hulle as well for her take on this.
I am from Manitoba. There has been a recent change to the Mental Health Act in Manitoba. When a patient was brought in with a suspected psychiatric complaint, the police would be called. If the patient was to be moved to another facility, the police would be the ones to transfer them if there was a safety issue. If they were picked up in the community, the police would take them in, and they would have to stay with the patient for safety until the patient had been seen and it had been determined that they were admitted to a suitable facility.
This change to the act says that the police no longer have to wait, because the province says that there are more people in the hospital with the training to deal with them; however, there is not more staff.
Can you see any safety considerations or implications with this change?