To reply for the government, the Minister of Long-Term Care.

The final supplementary. The member for Niagara Falls.

In fact, Mr. Speaker, what we’re doing is helping seniors who are on the long-term-care waiting list, who are in hospitals and want to be in long-term care, move into that long-term-care home.

I was just in a long-term-care home on Friday. The daughter and a resident came up to me and said that, after four months of being in a hospital, moving into the long-term-care home was a game-changer for them. It has meant the world. The mother and daughter are now able to visit easier. They’re able to get more social activities. They are making friends. She said that it has been a game-changer and she wished that she had done it sooner.

This is a testament not to the bill that we brought in that allows this to happen, this is a testament to the hard work of the people who are working in long-term care across the province of Ontario. It is made possible because of the investments that we have made in long-term care, over $13 billion worth of investments, to improve long-term care, to turn a patient into a resident of a home.

We’re building 60,000 new and upgraded beds in every part of the province. We’re bringing long-term care into small communities across the province because our seniors—you know what they have said to us? They have said that they want to be in communities that they have helped build, closer to their family and friends. That’s what they said, and that’s exactly what we’re doing. We are investing in long-term care—four hours of care per day for residents, a North-American-leading standard, Mr. Speaker. Those are the investments we’re making, and we’re doing it with our residents in long-term care, with the professionals who are working in our long-term-care homes, and we will get the job done because—

Another hallmark of the Fixing Long-Term Care Act is four hours of care—27,000 additional health care workers. We increased the food allocation. We’re building 60,000 new and upgraded beds. In his own riding—in his own riding—he voted against $50 million of additional support for health care workers in homes with over 450 new and upgraded beds in his own riding—voted against it, voted against the staffing.

We’ll get the job done, because they have never, ever cared about the sector. We care about the people who are in those—