Allow me to speak. I would have preferred you to focus on one or two subjects, and for us to deal with them. For example, let's take the problem of falls. You say that's the main problem for seniors. Why didn't we focus on that? Why didn't we talk about the existing problems, and say how we could solve them and what the solutions were? You're painting a nice picture of the situation, and I'm “buying” the picture. It's true that research is being done.
I went to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. They're doing fantastic research there on post-traumatic stress syndrome. The Americans are also doing fantastic research on post-traumatic stress syndrome. We have tools, but we're short of psychologists. Where do we go? How can we ask the provinces and universities to train psychologists? Because we know that the problem is a personnel shortage. I believe the number or medical employees virtually everywhere in Canada will decline instead of increase. There is a shortage of professionals in all provinces of Canada.
So I would have expected you to say how we can go about asking the provinces to improve and develop staff so that we can have the necessary tools to take care of future seniors like me. Perhaps I'm speaking a little selfishly, but I'm a little old man, I know!