I mentioned earlier the 2004 health accord. All the premiers, the prime minister and health ministers got together and signed an agreement for 10 years. I've worked with many premiers over the years—almost all of them—and if you show them the money, they will make changes. That's what we're seeing for child care. It's “What kind of money” and then there are standards.
That's what I expect we will see with long-term care. It will be, “Show me the money” and then we'll get the standards. We need to do it with mental health. We need to do it with our acute care sector. In our acute care sector right now, the crisis is the health human resource crisis. If we don't fix that, we won't have anything to worry about, because we won't have a system.
You heard from all the stakeholders here. We're calling for an agency of experts with the proper data and the proper funding for strategies to help us to do our jobs.
The worst thing I hear from nurses almost on a daily basis is, “I go into work every day and I know I'm not able to provide the care I should be providing. The sad thing is, I know I'm going back in tomorrow to do the exact same thing.” We need to stop that. We need to give them hope. I have trust in all of you that this is what will happen. You will give them hope with an amazing report from this committee, just like you did in 2019 on violence in health care. It was the best report.
Now we need to work together and fix it.