Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to stay focused on the crisis in long-term care, which has cost so many thousands of lives. In doing so, I don't in any way take away from the large problem of the individual cases of elder abuse that take place in our country, but I think we have a responsibility to respond.
I'm going to go back to the question of who could be investigating, and who could be working on laying charges in cases that appear to indicate violations of section 215 of the Criminal Code.
When for-profit long-term care companies own homes in more than one province, would it not be possible for the RCMP to investigate conditions and responses under COVID of those companies because they cross provincial lines of jurisdiction? I'm thinking in particular of one company—again which I won't name—that paid $10 million to its shareholders during COVID, but spent only $300,000 on its COVID response plan in its long-term care homes.
Isn't there an aspect here that does become federal when these companies cross provincial jurisdiction lines? I will ask the Justice officials again.