We also ask the government to mandate sex and gender research training for all government-funded researchers in order to facilitate this type of research, and also to support areas of research in these emerging topics—for example, sub-concussive impacts and multiple impacts to the head—because knowledge in these areas can help us to better understand how these factors might influence management needs, what role they may play in long-term effects and how these can affect Canadians.
The next area we're going to discuss with you is policy research.
Our first recommendation, of course, is to ask the government to encourage and to fund and support research on concussion policies themselves. It's also important to disseminate very consistent messaging through policies themselves and also to facilitate these conversations at and among the federal, provincial and territorial, and municipal levels of government.
Furthermore, we'd like to have the government support policy at the provincial and territorial levels of elementary, secondary and post-secondary educational institutions that will help to provide strategies for return to play, return to activity and return to learning, particularly including academic accommodations.