And when you start thinking about how it's so insidious in terms of the responses we have in terms of how we decide who gets care and what type of care they receive, you start- or even how we even perceive an entire segment of our society, you realize that when you start thinking about a lot of the deficiencies we're thinking about in terms of how we approach and even care for older Canadians, you. [...] Because if you're a renter and those rents keep going up and up and up, for example, then how can you afford to kind of live continue to live in the communities that you've been living in for so long? How do we think about the housing that you're in and how accessible it is? And is it going to remain accessible for you as you age, for example, as stairs become more difficult to navigate, or you ha. [...] And when we also think about the labor shortages that we're going to have in future, this is where we can think about positive immigration strategies that can help us to grow and continue to build our population and have the right mix of a few Canadians that can really help us to kind of meet some of the challenges ahead. [...] And through the work that I’ve been doing with many organizations and through our nationals on aging, we've developed a framework for a national senior strategy and one that we think really can help give the government, our federal government, in partnership with the provinces and territories, that overall focus that thinks about a lot of these different issues we've just discussed but in a holist. [...] But I think we could sort of get to see a crisis in that regard too that will partially be the function of the economy people are living in and the support that they're able to access or not, which does also go back to the role of family, this invisible role of family in maybe providing free child care.
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