Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I'd like to pass any of my remaining time to my colleague, Mr. Mendicino.
Thank you all for being here and for your incredible work and service. Through you, we'd like to thank all the people you represent who are in the field, day by day, shift by shift. We're grateful for what you're doing.
I'd like to start with the representatives from the paramedic community. I have a number of questions in the areas of definition, awareness and prevention, and then also treatment.
As the committee moves into the stage of contemplating how to frame our report, I'm wondering if you could tell us, with respect to definitions and terminology, what do we make part of this exercise. We've put the label “PTSD/OSI” on it, but there are a number of things and concepts embedded in it that we need to be very mindful of.
Monsieur Poirier, you spoke about wellness, and that takes us all the way along the spectrum into the most unfortunate outcome, namely suicide or attempted suicide. Some of the things include depression, substance use or substance abuse, panic disorder, and other diagnosable mental health injuries, if you will, that we need to be mindful of and potentially bring in.
I wonder if you have some comments on how we can not only be as precise as possible, but also as comprehensive as possible, in our terminology and definition of the problem.