Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to thank Mr. Regan for introducing this bill. I would also like to thank all the witnesses. You have taught me a lot about this.
You say that people crowd around a person having a seizure. That is true. I experienced that as a teacher. Someone had a seizure in the classroom. Children have all kinds of reactions. But most of them are curious. They want to see what is going on, but when they do see, they become very afraid and they turn away. It's very traumatic for everyone. Some kids start crying; others ask what is going on, whether the person is going to die.
I would very much like to know what is happening neurologically. What are the physical reactions, the physiological reactions, of someone having an epileptic seizure? You often hear that the person is exhausted afterwards because the seizure uses up a lot of energy, but I am not really aware of what is happening.
In terms of the awareness campaign, I was wondering, given that people do not know how to react, if you had also thought of presenting things like improvised sketches in public areas, in supermarkets, in the subway, in the street and on buses. The idea would be to make people aware of the fact that it can happen anywhere at any time, and of the proper way to react. You could then give out the cards. That could create awareness.