Thank you, Madam Chair. Good news, Minister, in terms of putting new money towards the seniors and the disabled citizens in terms of enhancement.
I just want to speak on the home care. As the Minister has indicated, the home care workers and the social workers, lack the efficient time to go into these homes and do a proper job. They go in there, they probably spend, what, 15, 20 minutes at the most, and then they have to go to another home. They don't really do a proper assessment or a proper identification, or they're so busy that they sometimes overlook or forget or just don't take care of what's needed in the senior's home.
My aunt is a senior who has this tub issue. It's over a year now and still nothing's been done about Ernestine Lenny, her house in terms of building up a ramp to her bath. So these are the ones that I guess I want to talk to the Minister about, Madam Chair, are the home care workers. Because of the amount of work that they do, I want to ask the Minister, would he consider, with his department, hiring these retired CHRs in our region that have 30 years plus, who are looking after people, who have done the work in the past, that they would put together a training program for these young CHRs as the old CHRs can be instructors to teach the young ones how to work properly with the older people? Translation, elderly care, what the elders look for. Not just to come into their house, do a quick mop-up job on the floor. They don't even do a proper house cleaning. So would the old CHRs be put to use? Because a lot of people still consider them as employees of the Health and Social Services, so they could help the young CHRs. I guess proper training for our young CHRs to identify needs and ask the old CHRs to come in to assist the workforce that the CHRs have to do. In a roundabout way, Madam Chair, I'm hoping that the Minister could figure out what I'm asking for and answer these questions.