Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I'd like to nominate Robert Kitchen as vice-chair of the subcommittee.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a few things before I get going. I don't mean this as a partisan jab, Mr. Dryden, but I've heard that the greatest politicians do their best work after politics, and that's not because of your political stripes in the past, but you're taking on a

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I hear you completely. What I have been looking at is what you were saying earlier in terms of coaches and managers and trainers being so intimately involved in this, in ensuring that the person who is coming off the ice or the field, or is on the ice or the field, is given the r

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you. First of all, thank you so much, everybody, for coming today. Rachel, I hope you don't mind my asking this question, because I spent time in elite soccer academies in the GTA. When your coach was yelling at you to get up, do you remember thinking at that point, “I sh

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  My question is for both you and Carly. Do you still play sports?

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I just had surgery for my ACL. Rachel, go ahead.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's great to hear. I have a final question. I'm hearing a lot about mental health from you specifically. We still know so little about the development of the mind, as a science. How difficult was it to move from just the concussion side of the trauma that you were going thro

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Hunter and Mr. Niedre, for your testimony today. I want to follow up exactly where Ms. Fortier was going on data. Are you from British Columbia? Where are you from?

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Oh, you're from just east of Toronto.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Then you're not from British Columbia. I had the opportunity to go out to B.C. and I actually went to the Rugby Canada headquarters. One of the things they talked about was concussions. It was interesting. I went out there about seven or eight weeks ago, and one of the places

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes, 100%. When they sign up for your sport, are they and their parents not filling out forms that tell you what their medical history is?

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Are you saying deal breaker in a good way?

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  You mean a deal maker.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It's an accelerant to move forward.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's great. Today is Bell Let's Talk day. We had some testimony at this committee which had me almost in tears. Cheryl knew one of the families very well. On the mental health issues, the mental illness related to concussions, what is the data you're getting out when you see t