Mr. Chair, I am going to speak in English because I will be better able to answer the question.
I'd like to address it in three phases: the education, the recruitment, and then when an event happens, because I don't think we've spoken about that piece.
On the education, I spoke earlier about the changes in the educational structure of how we teach and educate paramedics, la formation des paramedics. It's evolving right now to recognize that mental health is an integral part of that educational process. That's taking place today.
Colleges have already started to adopt it, and it's becoming a greater portion of the whole educational structure. As we recognize that and as we move toward baccalaureate education, we look at the roles paramedics take. As part of being a professional, self-reflection is part of that concept. That's an important piece to understand where you are in your context, so the education is evolving to address mental health issues.
How paramedics are recruited across the country is a mixed bag, including their initial education with respect to how they understand themselves, their mental health issues, and how they fit into the organization. I think Randy Mellow spoke earlier about all of those other impacts upon our well-being from shifts, the hours of work, the randomness of incidents, and how they affect us.
The last piece—and we've seen a fair bit of change in this area, and haven't spoken a lot about it today—is when an event happens. My apologies, because I'll use a sudden infant death event. That event may affect different people in different ways. Right now, we don't know exactly how to support our paramedics in that regard, and that's an interesting piece that's going on.
There is critical incident stress management, and there is critical incident stress debriefing. There has been a lot of research about the best way to help that individual. We don't know specifically what the answer is.
Different services across the country have chosen different methodologies. Critical incident stress management appears to be the most common, but we don't have the research to say it is the best. That's an important piece if we're looking for an understanding of what the best intervention is. We don't know. I think we all struggle with it, and I think the first responder community struggles with it because of how individualized that event is to each individual intervenant.
A paramedic, a police officer, or a firefighter who attend to that event may each have a different perception of it. That is an area where we—