Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a heartbreaking story that you share, and I understand the need to be with your family members. I've also got aging relatives who I love dearly. If it was as simple, Madam Chair, as just saying, "I will give you five beds and you can take care of your own in your community," I would do that right now. I would go down to Quality Furniture, or wherever, a Brick and buy five beds, out of my own pocket, and give it to the Member. The issue is not about the beds. The issue is one of our priorities: we don't have enough staff, health service staff, so one of our priorities is increasing our health professionals by 20 percent. We don't even have the staff to meet the needs of the buildings that we have now, so to expand on a program that we're not doing an adequate job with currently, is that best practice, Madam Chair? That is the question we need to ask. Thank you.
Caroline Cochrane on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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