There are several things to consider when it comes to long-term care. First, we all need to work together to ensure the best possible quality of life for seniors and to set standards, because Canadian law says that health care must be equivalent everywhere.
On the other hand, it has long been known that long-term care should not be provided in CHSLDs, the residential and long-term care centres, where it is much more costly and less effective, but rather at home. Some countries have already made this shift. We should already be considering this here.
On the other hand, if we want to take care of people properly, with dignity, it means increasing health transfers and including a variable related to the aging of the population. This does not exist today, and unfortunately, that is what was decreased in the transfers.