That was Bill C-566.
Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion Act
An Act respecting a Comprehensive Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion
This bill was last introduced in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.
This bill was last introduced in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session, which ended in August 2015.
Kirsty Duncan Liberal
Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)
Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Jan. 27, 2014
(This bill did not become law.)
This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament often publishes better independent summaries.
This enactment proposes to enhance public awareness and education and improve current practices respecting the prevention, diagnosis and management of concussion. It establishes a Pan-Canadian Concussion Awareness Week and requires the Minister of Health to initiate discussions with his or her provincial and territorial counterparts to develop a Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion, one element of which will be to develop a template for a Centre for Excellence in Concussion Research. The enactment establishes a Concussion Board to advise the Minister respecting the design and implementation of the Strategy and sets various reporting and publishing requirements in order to promote best practices related to the prevention, diagnosis and management of concussion.
All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.
April 1st, 2019 / 6:15 p.m.
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, As an Individual
That was Bill C-566.
April 1st, 2019 / 5:45 p.m.
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MD/Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, As an Individual
We also recommend, for education, the support for research, development and implementation of effective, multimodal, stakeholder-specific and interactive education to improve knowledge outcomes for all of these stakeholders. We also recommend the support and promotion of education for clinical trainees and practising clinicians alike that is competency-based, adequate and consistent, as there is a current knowledge gap among clinicians.
Our final recommendation—in which all of the five domains that we've just discussed actually fit—is for the federal government to move ahead with the three key priorities that have also been identified in the proposed Bill C-566, as we've previously mentioned.
April 1st, 2019 / 5:40 p.m.
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto, As an Individual
Our recommendations cover five key areas where our government can play an important and crucial role. These are listed on the slide here.
These recommendations are based on current research, including some of our own, as well as feedback from and discussions with a wide variety of stakeholders from across the country and beyond, and also some of our own policy work with Bill C-566, which was introduced in the 41st legislature.
The first area we're going to talk about today is prevention. Prevention is key to reducing things such as the financial burden that you would see with an injury such as this, as well as the adverse effects on the quality of life.
Our first recommendation here is to ask the government to encourage policy that's going to ensure that sport organizations and schools are contributing to a culture shift towards reducing the risk of concussion.
April 1st, 2019 / 5:40 p.m.
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Conservative
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen (Souris—Moose Mountain, CPC)) Conservative Robert Gordon Kitchen
Thank you, everybody, for coming.
I'll call the meeting to order. We are here in the meeting of the subcommittee for sports concussions. Pursuant to the motion adopted by the Standing Committee on Health on Thursday, October 4, 2018, the subcommittee is resuming its study of sports-related concussions in Canada. I appreciate everyone coming today.
We have two panel witnesses with us tonight. First, we'd like to welcome Sandhya Mylabathula and Swapna Mylabathula. Thank you very much for being here.
Both are Ph.D. candidates at the University of Toronto. Both seem to know this place, as they played an active part in Bill C-566, which was tabled in the 41st legislature.
They have a PowerPoint presentation, and I will give them the floor.
Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion ActRoutine Proceedings
January 27th, 2014 / 3:15 p.m.
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-566, An Act respecting a Comprehensive Pan-Canadian Strategy on Concussion.
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present an act representing a comprehensive pan-Canadian strategy on concussion, inspired by three and a half years of work by extraordinary twin sisters in my riding, Sandhya and Swapna Mylabathula. These University of Toronto students, who have won numerous academic and leadership awards for their concussion work, met with top researchers and stakeholders across the country to determine the needs for concussion.
The bill aims to increase public awareness and education and improve current practices respecting the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of concussion. It would establish a pan-Canadian concussion awareness week and would require the Minister of Health to initiate discussions with provincial and territorial counterparts to develop a pan-Canadian strategy on concussion, including a centre of excellence in concussion research.
It is my hope that hon. members will support the bill.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)