Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There's an appetite for sharing resources and ideas across the country, so, yes, we're funded to stay specific to Ontario, but absolutely there are opportunities for a spread. The RIA's mandate is national and global, so that does happen, yes, for sure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Absolutely, yes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we do, but there is an increased focus on northern and rural and smaller long-term care homes. You tend to get the bigger homes and the more open homes adapting some of the change. So yes, there's an increased focus on that with the renewed funding.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Are you asking whether it should be provincial-specific or across the country?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  My sense is no, because the structures are so different within each province for long-term care. That would be my sense. I'm not an expert on how the federal government is funding it. We're a provincially funded program. I would like to add, though, that everyone wants to be at

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I was not, no.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I know of it, yes. I'm not familiar with that particular body of work. We have, I think, 11 research chairs now with the organization, so there are a lot of bodies of work. Sometimes we identify those resources to spread within long-term care if they're specific to long-term care

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The Ontario Centres for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care. It's a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care-funded program that's been funded for the last six years. We just got renewed funding last year. It's base funding from the Ontario government, and this work

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Of the program...?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a wide range. An example of some of the work that we do is this particular work supporting indigenous culture and long-term care. We have a program supporting cultural diversity, which is ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation resources. It helps support homes to delive

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm Tammy Cumming from the UW-Schlegel Research Institute for Aging in Waterloo, Ontario. I'm here to talk a little bit about a program that I'm responsible for there. It's a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care-funded program called the Ontario Centres for Learning,