Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
Ms. Richard, my sister Jill would be proud today. She's an operating room nurse in my riding in eastern Ontario. She served in emergency before and also in a long-term care setting, so she's had experience on the front lines from different perspectives and certainly shares a lot of the comments that you've made, particularly about the mental health of nurses and the sustainability of the work and the pace at which they do it. I don't envy it at all.
I want to elaborate on a couple of points from your opening testimony. I appreciated the reference to working to reduce workplace violence in health care. Our Conservative colleague, Todd Doherty, from Cariboo—Prince George in B.C., has a private member's bill, Bill C-321, to make assaults against frontline health care workers an aggravating factor when considering sentencing.
You mentioned about working to reduce violence, and you mentioned some of the initiatives. From a budgetary perspective, not only is that piece of legislation important.... For example, we tried to get that passed through unanimous consent, based on that 2019 health committee recommendation, and couldn't. However, when we talk about the awareness in and around that, what do you envision from the union's perspective of what's needed—not only in the law to do that, but also in terms of whether it's internal or what we could do at a national level to help reduce workplace violence?