Health committee  If I can add one comment, it is that most adult Canadians with mental illness are in the Canadian workplace, and that's why one of our foci has been the Canadian workplace. We're about to release the standards for psychological safety in the Canadian workplace. This is unprecede

Health committee  Thank you. This is actually an identified subpopulation within the mental health strategy, precisely because of what you have identified, that this is a population we recognize to be at higher risk at certain vulnerable periods in their lives to depression, and to suicide. Mary

Health committee  Forgive me, but I cannot hear you very well. Just a moment, please. Okay, that's better.

Health committee  I hope you won't mind if I answer in English.

Health committee  Okay, thank you. I think if you look at the At Home/Chez Soi project, it started with a group of Canadians who face the most extreme social deprivation. They are people who are living under bridges and are experiencing mental illness, substance abuse, extraordinary poverty, and

Health committee  Thank you. As I mentioned earlier, one of the eight advisory committees to the Mental Health Commission is its first nation and Métis advisory committee. This issue has been very much front and centre both at the advisory committee level and also on our board, in which Manitok T

Health committee  I think the suffering in silence that you're talking about is a very common experience, even in people in whom the signs of mental illness may be obvious to other people but where the stigma prevents open discussion about this common human experience, which affects six million Ca

Health committee  Let me echo what Harold has said. I believe there is a huge degree of overlap. If you start to parse out the various elements of our soon to be released national strategy, you'll see the extent to which suicide prevention is effectively embedded in many of the initiatives. If w

Health committee  Thank you and good morning. It's a great pleasure to be in front of this committee this morning. My name is David Goldbloom. I am a psychiatrist. What a pleasure it is to be here today to discuss a topic that is of the utmost importance to me, both professionally and personally