Thank you, Mr. Chair. This appropriates year two funding of a four-year agreement that we have with Health Canada. We will have to come back to build the following years back into the budget, so you'll see future years brought forward at that time. We did an announcement on this. This agreement is for four years, 2018 to March 31, 2022. There is an option for a five-year extension, 2026 to 2027. This is based on review of how things are going. The agreement allows some carryover. Future allocations will be subject to population estimates and those types of things. The money that you see in 2019-2020 is going to help us establish two positions: a senior advisor for mental health and addiction services; and a manager of InterRAI implementation for home and community care. As the Member knows, InterRAI is the tool that we will be implementing to help assess homecare clients and long-term care clients to determine what their level of need is so that we can provide them the appropriate support through things like pay to family community care givers, home support workers, and also long-term care. Important work that needs to be done this fiscal year.
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