Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  First of all, thank you very much for inviting us here today. It's an honour to be here. Hopefully, we can talk about some ideas and talk a little bit about the past, but I think it's far more important to have a game plan going forward than to be looking at the past and being ne

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Sure.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I'd love to tell you more about it. I wish that Arthur Brown had finished his research and was further along...and this might be part of it. He has worked hard, and we're hopeful of positive results—or negative results, for that matter. When you think about research, you want to

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I look back to when I played. It's like school. Hockey would start in the fall, and we'd play until before exams, or the end of May. Then we'd have June, July, August and most of September when we weren't doing much. The science has taught us that this allows the brain to grow. T

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  We have a great doctor and researcher in Canada, Dr. Carolyn Emery, out of Calgary. She did research on hitting. You will not find this shocking at all, but if you take out hitting, then injuries and concussions go down accordingly. I guess you have to go through that, do that ty

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Principal.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  He must be busy.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's one, the communication part between school and your coaches, whether it be your high school coach or your travel coaches, or whatever coach you have. It's completely different from the regular protocols. They're a bit separate here. There are companies out there. There's a

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  The company name is PRIVIT.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It is very good at what it does. For full clarity, I help it out.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Rowan's law was just passed in Ontario. There was a group of 12 or 14 of us, led by Dr. Dan Cass, and we were told to come up with solutions. We did so over the course of that year. We had in mind that what we'd submitted was something that didn't just look at the highly populate

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I don't know what occurs now, but I would assume so.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  We really didn't have a whole lot going on in the past. A lot of the protocols occurring in the early and mid-1990s are still being used right now.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  This is the hard part about all this. You're never going to find a real black-and-white definitive answer. Every body is different. Every brain is different. Everyone is going to react differently to different things. Is there a specific time? You're never going to come up with

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Okay. First of all, I think it has improved. Now, when parents are going out and watching hockey, yes, they're cheering for their kid and looking out for their kid and the kid's teammates, but more and more, you're seeing people look out for the other team as well, which is ama