Health committee  The CNA does think that decriminalization is a strategy to help to reduce harms of related substance use.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. Legalizing will remove a lot of the harms of illicit cannabis. On your question about the funding for mental health, that is an excellent investment. We applaud the government's investment in mental health services because they are necessary. There's

Health committee  We were speaking specifically to criminalization for youth, but yes.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I think that's an excellent question. I think, for the purpose of our brief, in the surveying of our nurses across the country, we wanted to focus on the disproportionate disadvantage for decriminalizing for youth. We did not dive further into the excellent points that you rais

Health committee  Thank you for the question. The Canadian Nurses Association approaches the question of age from a harm reduction perspective. For all of the things that have been discussed over multiple days, as we've been hearing, we feel that they need to be very carefully balanced. We do r

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Karey Shuhendler. I'm a registered nurse and policy adviser for the Canadian Nurses Association, the national professional voice representing more than 139,000 registered nurses and nurse pra

Health committee  Thank you for sharing that story. It highlights some of the challenges that people experience first-hand with resistant organisms or infections. In our brief we recommended, as an example, the scaling up of community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs. We used the example

Health committee  Yoshi sat on the committee, and so did a colleague of mine. Josette Roussel was a member of the CNA. We did have additional representation from CNA on that committee as well. We did provide input on the infection prevention and control draft framework, as well, which was merged i

Health committee  Thank you for your question. I don't think Canadians are as knowledgeable as they could be about the issues of antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Morris made a comparison to the current opioid crisis. There aren't a lot of public faces to deaths attributed to antibiotic-resistant org

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Karey Shuhendler. I'm a registered nurse and policy adviser with the Canadian Nurses Association, the national professional voice for over 139,000 registered nurses and nurse practitioners in