Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Minister, I firmly believe that you care about seniors and that, like all of us parliamentarians, no matter what province we come from, you are saddened by what happened.
That being said, I feel like I'm hearing answers that have nothing to do with our health care system. You were talking about home care and one senior per room. That requires a broad organization of the services and care provided in each of our provinces, which have established committees for that purpose. It has to do with staff training, ratios, and public and private spheres of activity, which are under provincial jurisdiction. Yet you insist on the issue of standards.
I don't know if you spoke to a representative from Quebec, but the premier, on behalf of the National Assembly, clearly and publicly stated that we don't need standards, we need people to provide care. Rather than piecemeal funding, recurrent health funding is needed. The pandemic keeps being used as an excuse. Everything has been frozen in time. We need a vision, and it certainly should not impose conditions on the provinces in terms of how they deliver health care.