Thank you, Madam Chair.
I will be very brief on this. This is something that we talked about. We wanted to hear witnesses on the impact this would have on long-term care homes. Obviously, this is an amendment that we think is appropriate to reduce the risk or harm with regard to long-term care homes. I want to put it on the record that we were not able to hear from long-term care homes. Obviously, we heard from organizations prior to this legislation being tabled last fall in the study the committee undertook, but we did not hear from subject matter experts on this issue related to the bill.
I just want to put that on the record as one of the reasons that we're moving this, noting, again, that it would have been nice to have had subject matter experts speak to this as it relates to long-term care homes.