Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you for that question. Yes, at the same time that we're doing this planning for long-term care, we've also been doing planning for changes to home and community care. Just before this Assembly began, there was a comprehensive review of home and community care and some recommendations about how the program could be strengthened.

One easy example I'll give you is that the hours needed to be more flexible, that home care was primarily being offered only during work hours, 9 to 5, and that there was a need for home care in other hours. There's also a need for more home care if we're going to accommodate people to stay in their homes rather than move into regional centres to long-term care homes. And not only is that what we hear people want to happen, that they want to stay in their own homes as long as possible, it's also the most cost effective way to support them.

We just heard how much it costs to operate a long-term care bed. So if we were able to, you know, spend a fraction of that money on home care, a personal support worker and nursing care for people in their homes, that would obviously better -- be better all around. And so that is something that we're actively working on now. Thank you.