Thank you, Chair.
Minister, thank you very much for being with us today.
Before I begin my questions, I think it's important to get on record that, on behalf of the people of Don Valley North, I want to say thank you for your good and hard work this year. It's been a very tough year. I know that the majority of the public service are still working from home, and things are not back to normal yet. There are a lot of decisions to be made in a very short period of time. Also, people often forget that we are operating as a minority government and that we need to work with all parties. It's not easy, but I just wanted to make sure that you heard that your leadership and compassion and the hard work by the public service are felt and, in fact, they are making Canada one of the top-performing countries in the world in responding to COVID. I just wanted to make sure that appreciation was on record and passed on to you on behalf of my constituents.
I have a particular interest after seeing $12.65 million in payments for personal support workers' training and measures to address labour shortages in long-term care and home care. I heard in the fall economic statement as well that this was something we were going to do in the future, or something along those lines.
Can you give the committee more information on this initiative?