Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to the witnesses for being here and helping us out.
I picked up a number of excellent points raised today, but you reference age-friendly communities. As a short preamble, in my northern Ontario riding I have the small city of Elliot Lake, which having once been the world's uranium capital has not a single uranium mine left. The clean-up has been very well done by the mining companies under the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's fine jurisdiction. The number of early retirees, younger middle-aged seniors, if I could describe them that way, and even older seniors who have moved to Elliot Lake is incredible, in the thousands. For a lot of these retirees it was basically an economic thing as well as environmental--clean air, access to fishing and the outdoors, and so on. Among these thousands are many retired military. The local legion is one of the biggest legions anywhere. It think it has 800 or 900 members in a town with a population of 12,000.
Could you talk a bit more about age-friendly communities? Is it simply just to set up nice things you can do for seniors, or is it a really proactive modelling of what can be done to encourage seniors to move to rural Canada where we believe the quality of life is higher? With the baby boom generation--I and many of us here I think are part of that--there's a huge number of us approaching those years when we will need seniors' accommodation.