I am in agreement with what Mr. Long had to say. My concerns are that things are very different in rural Canada, for seniors specifically. If we get into a much broader analysis or study, we're going to lose the impact of what I'd like to accomplish, and that is to get a better understanding of the support infrastructure.
For example, in many urban areas you'll have seniors centres that have not been established in rural areas. The transit infrastructure is not there. Access to reliable Internet services is not there. There's social isolation in rural communities for seniors. That impact, I think, has been far more dramatic and highlighted during this last pandemic.
My concern is that the seniors group is a very high-risk group that needs a good understanding in terms of what we can do to support them because of their age, but also the nature of their location and the community structure they're living in. I think that we would lose an awful lot if we broadened that to include everything. That would be like an effort to boil the ocean. That's not going to provide us the kind of information that I'm seeking, which is very specific toward seniors, the impact of being more isolated, and how we can put forward some recommendations that could be considered for the government to deal with that.