Health Committee on May 14th, 2019

Evidence of meeting #144 for Health in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was emergency.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Violence Faced by Health Care Workers in Hospitals, Long-term Care Facilities and in Home Care Settings

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Robert-Falcon Ouellette

Pam Damoff

Also speaking

Alan Drummond Co-Chair, Public Affairs Committee, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

Linda Silas President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions

Miranda Ferrier President, Canadian Support Workers Association

Randy Mellow President, Paramedic Chiefs of Canada

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bill Casey

The time is up.

I want to say on behalf of the committee, I can't imagine four people who could have defined this challenge better than you four have. You've done a great job of articulating the problem. This is the first meeting we're having on this issue, but I know, from my point of view, it's more pervasive and serious than I thought it was.

Thank you all for what you've done.

Ms. Ferrier, I know it's difficult to do what you have done, to sit there on the video conference, but you have done really well. Thanks very much for that.

5 p.m.

President, Canadian Support Workers Association

Miranda Ferrier

Thank you.

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bill Casey

Chief Mellow, we had paramedics here when we did a post-traumatic stress examination, and the stories they shared with us were memorable for sure.

Anyway, thanks very much to all of you for helping us with this. This is meeting one and we have three more to go. We'll learn a lot by the time we're done, but you've given us a good start.

We're going to suspend for a few minutes.

[Proceedings continue in camera]