Human Resources committee  Ms. Hall, do you mind if I go first? Thank you. Essentially, the [Technical difficulty—Editor] that the dignity element is the key, and the dignity element is tied to that professional title. The reason we have seen a lot of these jobs go from full-time to part-time, and it is a

Human Resources committee  Data is a huge a problem for frontline health care. As we said, there is no title protection, so there's no corresponding professional college in which to accumulate or restore that data. It's very much a complete [Technical difficulty—Editor]. About a year ago, the Canadian Supp

Human Resources committee  That is a primary element of what we're trying to do as the Canadian Support Workers Association: It's to put essentially a fence around that title. Right now, in Canada, there are a number of different titles that can describe the work of the duties that a PSW or a community car

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'm Ian DaSilva, director of operations for the Canadian Support Workers Association. We represent 50,000-plus to 60,000 PSWs right across Canada. I would like to thank you for having us here today. Governments, health human resource strategists, labour leaders and a