I'd like to answer one aspect of this and turn then to Amanda.
For starters, when you give the money to a not-for-profit employer, it is going directly to the care staff. The Office of the Seniors Advocate in B.C. issued a publication a few months ago that demonstrated that our for-profit operators in B.C. under-delivered 200,000 hours. That would be the equivalent of a whole other care facility that could house about 150 beds.
Not-for-profit providers over-delivered by 80,000 hours. Their per diems from the health authorities are allocated in such a way that assumes they are all paying the public sector wage of $25.33 an hour to care aides, even though some of them are only paying $17. That is one way we could be more efficient with our money and our spending.
I'll turn to Amanda.