Thank you.
I would add that long-term care homes are 24-7 operations. Within that model, a certain number of staff members will always be required to be on a part-time or on-call basis. That is essential to the model.
I will note that in terms of the number of hours that are available to create full-time and part-time positions, that comes back to the hours of care. It's the hours of care in a home that really drive how much time a care provider spends at the bedside of a resident. Those hours then translate back into the number of positions you can create. With a 24-7 operation, the employer decides what they need in terms of full-time and part-time staff to keep the home running.
That's all part of that piece. We see that provincial governments are now taking steps to increase the hours of care and are establishing targets for that. Of course, it then comes back to what we're talking about here today, which is the staffing shortages. We can increase hours of care and we can make those resources available, but at the same time we need to be extremely diligent in continuing our efforts, with urgency, to increase the actual pool of people who are available to work in our homes and in all of long-term care.