Government Operations committee  Chartwell is a big company. It's a North American-wide company. In Canada it is definitely one of the for-profit homes. I can share some numbers with you. Chartwell is valued at over $2 billion a year, and last year it paid out almost $130 million in dividends to shareholders. T

Government Operations committee  It's because it's all in their best interests. Again, as I say, the lobbying is for their shareholders and certainly not for the seniors who are living in their homes in their dying years, or for those caregivers who can't seam together full-time work. Paid sick days are a dream.

Government Operations committee  Thank you. That's a great question as well. There's definitely something broken in the system. We all know that front-line health care is managed and delivered by the provinces, but I think there is a role for government to play, to oversee what the governments are doing on the

Government Operations committee  An increase in money to the front line would definitely help secure the full-time employment of workers who need to be there. We need to address staffing levels in those homes, so any resources that can be put back in by the federal government would absolutely make a huge impact

Government Operations committee  Yes. Thank you very much for the question. It's an extremely important one. The statistics already show that the majority of senior care workers in home care and long-term retirement homes are marginalized people. They are predominantly women and, of course, women of colour. In

Government Operations committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. Members of the committee, thank you for hearing from me today. More importantly, thank you for taking the opportunity to hear from SEIU. We represent over two million members across the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. I proudly serve as intern