Bonita Zarrillo at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 5th, 2024. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2024 / 4:30 p.m.

NDP

Bonita Zarrillo NDP Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC

Okay. Thank you.

I'm going to move to Minister O'Regan.

We have also spoken about the care economy, I know, and I appreciate your reaching out to me in some of your busiest times to talk about this.

However, as we look at the seniors portfolio specifically and as we talk about long-term care, nursing, personal care aids, home care aids, and even federal nurses—we have a whole health care division federally—I want to know about collecting data.

When we were doing the care economy study a couple of years back, there was a real lack of pan-Canadian data to do HR planning in this space. Has there been any movement on being able to gather data on these workers in the care economy?

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