Yes, I do, for some of the reasons articulated earlier. There is a patchwork of what can be expected across the country. It would raise educational standards. It would probably raise care hours and our understanding of the kinds of mixes provided. At the minimum it would reassure and would help the public understand that there's a national interest and a common understanding of what you could expect when you get old and need long-term care.
Not everybody is going to need long-term care when they get old. Dementia is the main driver of admission to long-term care. Those people whose needs overwhelm the family and the community in home care do need long-term care. For them, it's the right place to be if it's done properly.
Right now I think Canadians are afraid—I know they are—to go into a nursing home. The pandemic has exacerbated it. There's no sense, I believe, in the country that this is a national effort in the same way, even though it's still a bit of a patchwork, that health care is. Long-term care is not health care. It's a combination of social and health care. There's no real sense of cohesiveness that I can see in terms of what you get to expect when you get old and need that kind of care.