Thank you very much for your questions. I'll do my best to answer them.
I'll start with your reference to the press release back in September. This press release drew attention to the fact that the Canadian Association for Long Term Care has identified a number of issues, chronic issues, in the system. We've been speaking with the federal government and other levels of government for years looking to have these addressed. The silver lining of this pandemic is that it has shone a light on the sector of long-term care. It has everyone now looking at it, seeing that we can do better, and anxious to know what these corrections should be—must be—to ensure that we don't end up in the same situation again in the future.
We've talked about the need for staffing and a national health human resource strategy. That would be an important step toward ensuring that we don't find ourselves in this situation again. There's also the infrastructure of our homes. Hundreds of homes across the country need to be either completely rebuilt or refurbished so that they are better designed for infection control. If a virus like this were to present itself again, we then would be better equipped in these homes to deal with it than we currently are.
Earlier, I mentioned data as something we need to collect and share and give to policy-makers like you so that you can make good decisions about the sector. This has been an extremely difficult time for everybody, families and residents, across the country, and we really don't want to repeat this. We see that there are ways to avoid going through the same scenario. If another virus like this one went through our country in five years' time, we should have the infrastructure, we should have the staffing and we should have the information in place so that we can avoid—