You are well respected.
At the beginning of your comments, you said that the government is as committed to seniors as you are. I would suggest, or at least hope, that your commitment far exceeds what we have seen from the government at this point. I appreciate your commitment to help seniors.
As you know, we have a very quickly changing aging population in Canada. Right now it's one in six. In approximately six years it will be one in five, and in about 14 years it will be one in four. You highlighted that in your comments.
The vast majority of Canadian seniors would love to age in place, and the only practical and affordable way to take care of this aging population is to permit them to age in place. We cannot afford to build enough housing, and it would not be appropriate to warehouse our Canadian seniors. It's not what they want, and it's not what we can afford. We don't have enough time to build enough houses to house them. For all those reasons, we need to focus on aging in place.
In your comments, you shared that there is a national seniors housing strategy, which is going to include some housing for seniors—and we do need to provide some more housing for end-of-life care, palliative care, hospice care. We need those extra beds for that, but a major focus needs to be on providing home care.
You touched on that. You said that the Minister of Health included investment in home care in the negotiations and agreements with the provinces and territories, so that's a question on that. Then I have one for you on access and the Minister of Sport.
Could you provide details about what the government is going to do to ensure that we have home care that meets the needs of an aging population? Is that going to include a number of new people with training in geriatrics and palliative care to provide that home care? Is that part of the agreement with the provinces?