Thank you.
Ms. Hall, thank you so much for coming.
I also, from my emergency work, appreciate the difficulties with the lack of long-term care beds. We have a lot of patients actually sitting in emergency because they basically just can't cope at home anymore. They don't have an acute medical illness, so medicine won't admit these people, because they're not sick, but we have to find some place for them to go. They will often spend over a week on a stretcher in our hallway in the emergency department until we're able to find a bed for them. We've also had some barriers in that our provincial government, a number of years ago, closed three hospitals in Winnipeg, and also cancelled a $6-billion expansion in long-term care, and we're seeing the effects of it to this day.
You were talking about credentialing. I have the same question I had for Mr. Johansen. Would a system that allowed free mobility of workers, allowing them to travel between provinces, as opposed to having to apply for a licence in every single province...? Would it help if there was a way of having recognition of a licence throughout Canada? Do you believe that would help your staffing problems?