National Defence Committee on Dec. 7th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #10 for National Defence in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was problem.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Access to Mental Health Services within the Canadian Armed Forces

MPs speaking

Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe

Also speaking

Geneviève Bernatchez Judge Advocate General, Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Michel Marcotte

Rakesh Jetly Senior Psychiatrist, Directorate of Mental Health, Canadian Forces Health Services Group, Department of National Defence

Kyndra Rotunda Professor, Military and International Law, Chapman University, As an Individual

December 7th, 2020 / 11:35 a.m.

Dr. Kyndra Rotunda Professor, Military and International Law, Chapman University, As an Individual

Can you hear me?

11:35 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Karen McCrimmon

Yes, now we can.

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Professor, Military and International Law, Chapman University, As an Individual

Dr. Kyndra Rotunda

Yes, ma'am, that would be fine. I can attend on Friday.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Karen McCrimmon

Thank you very much.

We're going to suspend for a couple of minutes. We'll see if we can do a last fix. If not, then we will reconvene on Friday. But we'll suspend for a couple of minutes to see if we can get this fixed. If not, then we will come back on Friday.

Stand by.

11:35 a.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Karen McCrimmon

It looks as though we're not going to be able to get this fixed this morning, so we will adjourn for today. We will reconvene on Friday. We will reach out to you with a notice of meeting. We will update the witnesses, and we'll go from there.

I'll also reach out to each of you via email to chat about the way ahead. We might need a steering committee meeting now. I'll be connecting with you after we finish here today.

I want to apologize to our witnesses and thank them.

I want to thank our witness in California for getting up so early in the morning to join us. We really appreciate it.

We apologize. I think a lot of what's been happening around the world has challenged a lot of us, but we'll find a way to make this happen.

To all of our witnesses, thank you for joining us. We'll be in contact very soon to provide the details for Friday's session. I just want to say thank you so much for being with us in committee. We'll be reaching out with more information for you very shortly.

With that, the meeting is adjourned.