This is an important question. It is an important task ahead. My colleague here is also the chair of the sister committee, if you will, which is the CSA committee that will be helping to develop the complementary set of standards. We're both working closely together as chairs and our committees will be working closely together.
One of the key goals that we both set out as chairs is to have deep public engagement. For example, many times when committees like this exist where the work is done, people are not aware of how they can get engaged. Many people have a lot of things to say.
Close to 4,000 people have already completed the initial survey that we put out. This is everything about what they want long-term care to look like and what issues are important to them. We have asked people to comment on the themes on a very broad basis, just so we can start hearing what matters most to Canadians, so that we do come up with standards that actually reflect what Canadians currently want and need and what they think is currently lacking.
This is only a start. We are also planning as chairs to lead the development of town halls and round tables and really do deep public engagement. The public will have an opportunity to do what we call a public review of our draft standards in January 2022, so that we can get more feedback. At the end of the day, when this feedback comes in, we want our committees to see what Canadians want and need.
That's why we're really looking forward to all the input we can get, so that when these standards come out, people can say that they are the standards that they respect and that they want. The standards then can become more broad-based in their use across the country, whether it be for accreditation, funding, enforcement, inspections or even new legislation.
That's what we're hoping to get from the feedback that we're soliciting right now.