It has been a terrible tragedy. With respect to what Mr. Berkes said, there are, of course, some provisions that are never used in Canada against long-term care homes. I respectfully believe, however, that the current Criminal Code provisions do not go far enough to reach into those areas and don't speak to criminal endangerment.
There are challenges when it comes to private, public and municipal homes, but I don't believe there is any way in particular to delineate them. Across this country, we have different ways of funding long-term care, and there is about a fifty-fifty mix of public and private. I do believe in the development of national standards, but that needs to be tethered to dollars and to a bill of rights associated with elder abuse and older people.
I do not think the Criminal Code as is goes far enough in creating a charge that will get laid against long-term care homes, and I think a study about criminal endangerment needs to be made available to respond to those issues.