Health committee  Do you mean the crisis in long-term care?

Health committee  Thank you. It is certainly a very unfortunate situation. I have every confidence that when individuals go to work in long-term care their expectation, their need, is to support residents. I think that what is happening, unfortunately—and you see some similarities in Ontario—is t

Health committee  At this point we have enough supply of PPE. We are looking at it from two perspectives. We do accept donations today, and we are looking to continue doing that. Oftentimes the donations are for particular agencies, so we will reroute donations to those agencies or through our c

Health committee  The federal funding provided to the region to date, under the reaching home program, has been critical and essential to the entire regional response. This money has supported region-led initiatives, such as expanding the shelter capacity into vacant hotels—and we have just over 3

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Through the chair, I'm going to separate the question in two and speak first to what I think are the underlying causes of these issues. Then I will certainly provide some comment on your question about the private homes with respect to municipal homes.

Health committee  We're doing a couple of things. Through our community response table, we have a group working on domestic violence. That group is also linked with our community safety and well-being team. In that team a group of community agencies have come together. They are working actively on

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to present to the Standing Committee on Health. And good afternoon to members of the committee. My name is Nancy Polsinelli, and I am the interim CAO for the Region of Peel, which I will refer to in my presentation as “the region”. The r