Health committee  The best example I can give you is the H1N1 disaster we just went through. We had no fewer than 14 ways to immunize people against H1N1. How ridiculous. There's really only one way to immunize people properly. That's the trouble we have right now. Each province is helter-skelter

Health committee  Let me give you the best example. Alcan, which is a company that makes aluminum, has hundreds of thousands of employees around the world. They solved the problem within the organization by having an online reporting system for occupational injuries. From synthesizing that informa

Health committee  No, that's a simple question.

Health committee  We can do that offline.

Health committee  That's what it looks like, by the way. We have a graph.

Health committee  You can pass it to the vice-chair.

Health committee  It's Sweden. Canada has this many deaths per 100,000 and Sweden has that many deaths per 100,000. It's a rarity when a child is traumatized in Sweden. Sweden, nationally, set as their objective.... In Sweden, their parliament actually passed an act that said “We want zero injurie

Health committee  The other thing you can do is work with your family doctor, pediatrician, and public health units, because they should be the ones who are giving you that information. So every time a child sees a health care provider.... I always tell my patients who have ear infections that the

Health committee  That's the time you use because that's what's going to kill them. The ear infection is not going to kill them. We need to do risk assessments for kids when we interact with them, and as they grow that's going to change.

Health committee  There's an actual program that Canada developed under the directorship of Dr. Barry Pless called CHIRP, the Canadian hospital injury reporting program. It doesn't exist in every hospital, but in the ones that do have it--primarily children's hospitals--they do collect the data. O

Health committee  There is definitely a link between brain injury and fetal alcohol syndrome and suicide. Once you start teasing apart what happens to an injured individual, a lot of them are not able to reintegrate back into society. A lot of them we see start falling into substance abuse and the

Health committee  Just go to YouTube and Google “25th anniversary TAC”, Transport Accident Commission, and there's a five-minute video that pulls 25 years of commercials together. You'll see how it's done. That's why I'm saying Canada could leap-start ahead by just asking people who know what's

Health committee  Yes, that is not a problem. If you take a look at unintentional injuries, 38% of those injuries are falls. And those are not just falls of seniors. Those are falls of kids, occupational falls, all over the place. About 25% are motor vehicle-related, 5% are poisoning, 2% are fir

Health committee  That's probably the one that everyone talks about. Australia has been able to reduce carnage on their roadways through aggressive enforcement. The enforcement on their roadways is 24/7 and they are constantly looking for speeders. They are constantly looking for people talking on

Health committee  Just to give you an example, 7% of all fatalities in France on roadways are directly related to cellphone use, so that's how big a problem it is.