Of course, we want to protect people. Since protecting people is the responsibility of the health and social services network, there are already standards in place. You said that.
In no way do I want to trivialize what happened, but I just want to remind you that it was the Canadian Armed Forces that, in their report, pointed out what people needed. You talk about the labour shortage, but we still need to implement these standards and to implement them we need the resources and the personnel to take care of the people. So we also need bigger health budgets. I am not the one who highlighted the importance of financial transfers; it is the Canadian Armed Forces themselves who mention it in their report.
I would like to end with two small caveats, which we can come back to later.
We are willing to discuss your bill and find ways to improve it. For example, the definition of “long-term care facility” proposed in the bill does not specify that these facilities, such as long-term care homes, are under provincial jurisdiction. This is something we will have to look at. In addition, this definition is very prescriptive and excludes, among others, older people who are able to decide, voluntarily, to reside in one of these facilities but who do not necessarily have disabilities. So those things should be added. Are you willing and open to talking about that in your bill?