Health committee  I have just one final comment on all this. I would just say that there's an army of people at the community level who would be willing to step forward and help. I actually personally intend to spend the rest of my time working on this and bringing victims and families to the fore

Health committee  Once you've set a national standard—I'll come back to that—you can encourage the different groups to conform to it. My question to the folks who ask what, as a parent, they can do, is whether they are wearing helmets when they're on a bike. Are they wearing helmets when they're

Health committee  If you had a centre for disease control in Canada that was actually a source of independent advice, then maybe you'd be able to find that kind of information if indeed that was a priority. The problem is in the vacuum that exists when the leadership is not there or the resource i

Health committee  We do that. There are 16 designated safe communities in Canada, and we have an authenticated community injury-priority-setting session. The data is so much better now, but it's still not close to being good enough. Within four hours we can build consensus. We can put 250 people i

Health committee  It's quite odd. On the hand-held, there is actually some emerging evidence that it is actually more dangerous. What people are doing is it's now going down here instead of holding the thing up, so they can't be detected. In fact, their eyes are going off the road.

Health committee  I agree absolutely with Louis's recommendations. The only other thing I would say is that in the vacuum of standards, which is really what we're talking about, best practices arise in places where they apply different levels of money and resources. The Passport to Safety program

Health committee  I say all this non-politically. Then there's leadership. I'm not going to lecture you. Please bring your leadership abilities and your capacity to this. Please do that. Yes, you need to bring the resources. If the commitment, the understanding, the passion, the leadership, and

Health committee  Megan Leslie.

Health committee  She represents Halifax very ably.

Health committee  Okay.

Health committee  Absolutely. I sort of outweigh you on this. My daughter works for the House of Commons, so they put me ahead of you.

Health committee  Now my daughter will be eternally embarrassed, and for that she will not be grateful. Robin and I experienced a tragedy some 15 years ago, on November 19. Her brother, my son, was killed in a workplace explosion in Brampton, Ontario. He died by fire. You have a graph from Louis