The absence of data in long-term care has been a key area of advocacy for the CALTC for some time. It's not only about resident clinical data. There are tools to collect that, but about 32% of long-term care homes do not have access to those tools. When it comes to workforce data, that is where there are really no consistent tools available. We can see in the draft national standards that have been brought forward that this is a key area of focus, but it puts the obligation on the employer to collect the data with tools that we don't have today. There would be a significant investment that would be required.
One thing we have noted is that there could be an opportunity through Statistics Canada to expand the current labour workforce survey that they do now, but in a way that would more specifically target the long-term care sector and bring the data to a disaggregate level so that it could be very specific. Right now, even if data was collected at the home level regarding the workforce, there is no body to report the data to in order to create a national analysis. Making sure that we have tools to collect the data, but also that we have a way to analyze and use it once it's done, are essential next steps.