Health committee  We start with the Prime Minister, don't we?

Health committee  To start off with, it's just to say if you look from the first generation to the second generation to the third generation, the rate of poverty for the black population of Canada increases. It's the only part of Canada where the poverty rate increases from people who are immigran

Health committee  Oh, yes. It's good to say that. I could have gone on forever. The gaps increased over that time, so we have to decide what we need to put in place to stop that from happening.

Health committee  For me, that's the simplest question I've had all day. Yes, most definitely, Dr. Kitchen; I completely agree with you.

Health committee  I was lucky to be part of the basic income pilot project as the research and evaluation advisory group chair. I advised directly the running of the basic income pilot and the link between the basic income pilot and the third party evaluators, who were a consortium of academics. I

Health committee  I think it's really important to be thinking about disability. I think I've mentioned before the analysis of comparing Germany to Canada. The big difference between Germany and Canada with regards to lives lost has been that 80% of people who've lost their lives in Canada are fr

Health committee  As you know, I was the research and evaluation chair for the Ontario basic income study. I like the idea of a basic income. I like the outcomes of a basic income. I like the fact that it does improve equity, and I like the fact that there are health and mental health outcomes as

Health committee  One of the things we found, and one of the things that we've always thought, is that if you can intervene early, you decrease the need for crisis intervention, so our team was very straightforward. It was community based. For every person who we saw, they and their family were gi

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. I didn't know quite where it was going; I thought you were going to be talking about the echo epidemic of mental health that was going to come through COVID. The situation that we find in Canada in general is that about 7% of health care spe

Health committee  I do think there are significant difficulties with regard to data collection that are produced by the federal/provincial and territorial split. But I do think that the federal government itself can make sure it gets its own data house in order. It is surprising that we have a c

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Desilets. I would bring you back to some numbers. If you look at the death rate per 100,000, in Canada it's been about 23 per 100,000. If you look at somewhere like the United Kingdom, it's been 50 per 100,000. In fact, Canada's rate is pretty good compared to th

Health committee  I think that's a really interesting and important question. It is very difficult to make comparisons between countries. Also, most of the excess deaths, which are linked to ethnic group, are not linked to biology. They are linked to people's social situations, and people's social

Health committee  Sure, and thanks very much for the question. I completely agree with Dr. Siddiqi that we need to go fundamentally towards equality and equity, and that there are these fundamental causes that are driving disparities. The problem is that a lot of the things you are going to do t

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for inviting me to speak to the standing committee. I am a physician and also the CEO of Wellesley Institute, a think tank that aims to improve health and health equity through research and policy development focused on the social det