Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to all the guests who came from different parts of our provinces and territories—not from territories yet—different provinces and different disciplines. I can see that almost all our strategies are here.
Kudos especially to the Canadian Medical Association. We worked closely before. Thank you for your past services. Your submission has a lot of outlines for exactly what our strategies should look like.
I would like to especially comment on a few things that some of our witnesses mentioned, the whole idea of two situations where you have very healthy seniors who still need our services in other ways like staying healthy, and then those very frail seniors who need extra help, especially on the medical and caring sides. Also, we have lonely seniors who are healthy, but they don't know where to go. They feel lonely and end up becoming ill because of all the negative impact on their mental situation, which has also been documented.
I want to comment on a few things. You mentioned the Silver Line in the U.K., which a lot of seniors call. I understand that the new horizons program also funds local organizations to do exactly that, to have volunteers and train volunteers to do that.
Do you see a need for increased funding so that this part of our senior services can be really enriched?