Human Resources committee  Thank you. I would add that long-term care homes are 24-7 operations. Within that model, a certain number of staff members will always be required to be on a part-time or on-call basis. That is essential to the model. I will note that in terms of the number of hours that are a

Human Resources committee  The role of volunteers and essential caregivers—or natural caregivers—is so important. We've come to see them as key partners for us in long-term care homes. I'll use an example from my own province, in which, just prior to the pandemic, it was documented that long-term care ho

Human Resources committee  The absence of data in long-term care has been a key area of advocacy for the CALTC for some time. It's not only about resident clinical data. There are tools to collect that, but about 32% of long-term care homes do not have access to those tools. When it comes to workforce data

Human Resources committee  We've had long-standing issues with staffing shortages across the country. That's not new. However, it became exacerbated during the pandemic, when we saw examples.... One of the strategies used in the provinces was that staff could not be shared across different employers. That

Human Resources committee  The Canadian Association for Long Term Care is an organization that began as almost a networking group in 2002. Since that time we have grown and evolved to become an organization that represents a range of long-term care homes across the country. We have a mixed membership base

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. We have met with the Minister of Immigration and his team. We've looked at the EMPP program—the economic mobility pathways project—which targets skilled refugees to enable them to come to Canada. We believe there is a tremendous opportunity for expansion und

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Long, for your comments and for your question. There are a number of examples, as you've outlined, where this government has made investments for seniors. I know you are continuing to do work to better define abuse. That has some very important legal implications.

Human Resources committee  I think several factors feed into that. There's been chronic, long-standing underfunding of long-term care across the country, I'd say, at all levels. That certainly created a circumstance where we see an overall weakness. At the very beginning of the pandemic, homes initially

Human Resources committee  Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to appear before you today to discuss Canada's long-term care sector, the challenges with labour shortages and the opportunities for urgent action. My name is Jodi Hall. I am the CEO of the Canadian Association for Long Term Car

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I wanted to make an additional comment in regard to the question regarding for-profits in care. I just want to simply highlight that there are significant provincial standards and budgets that are set. Funding that goes to all homes, including private organizations,

Status of Women committee  I completely agree when it comes to the jurisdictional question between the federal and provincial governments. For us, this has become a time when we need to look at this as a shared responsibility. I think the transition of the age of our population across Canada can't be borne

Status of Women committee  Well, certainly we acknowledge the assistance that's been given with the safe restart agreement money. That hasn't always translated...or it has translated differently in each province, if I can express it that way. The homes in each province have not all necessarily received the

Status of Women committee  I've unmuted. My apologies.

Status of Women committee  Okay. Hopefully, this will help you to hear a little better. My apologies for that. In regard to health human resources, we are calling on the federal government for support in the development of a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy. This is an area that is the most co

Status of Women committee  A response was received just recently, kind of acknowledging the requests and creating an opportunity for us to have an exchange with the employees of the office going forward.