Human Resources committee  I'll give a couple of very practical proposals. The federal government, under the previous government, introduced the registered disability savings plan to provide future economic security for people with significant disabilities. There are so many who aren't going to be able to

Human Resources committee  How are we going to link up local community hubs across the country to share a best practices model?

Human Resources committee  You'd have to redefine your relationship with the national non-profit sector, which has been underfunded and is facing incredibly difficult challenges. There is infrastructure that makes that work. We have an initiative, for instance, that touches down in Saint John, among immigr

Human Resources committee  One very successful example in the employment area, which relates to social infrastructure, is an initiative we're undertaking, with federal government support, in partnership with the Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Association, so for people with autism. We identified 20 com

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. I mean, families need a place to go in their communities for resources, backup support, and assistance to help them navigate their communities. They're working across health, social services, and various benefit programs. They're falling through the cracks, and becaus

Human Resources committee  We have a kind of residual approach to broader social support. It relies on the family to be the lead. We have a growing number of families who, themselves, are caregivers. They can't provide the backup support, and they are burning out. We have a hugely disproportionate number o

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to be here today. The Canadian Association for Community Living is a national federation of over 200 local associations, provincial and territorial associations, and our national organization. Our mission is

Justice committee  You solve the problem by going with advance review, because then physicians aren't authorizing this. They're doing their job as physicians, and that's our proposal to address that concern. It also means that you can have many more physicians in Canada, beyond the one-third who ar

Justice committee  —to administer the act.

Justice committee  I wasn't suggesting that conscience rights shouldn't be protected.

Justice committee  In talking with palliative care experts—you'll have the opportunity, I believe, to speak with Dr. Harvey Chochinov, who will be appearing here—about this palliative consultation, the suggestion is that you can do a good consultation in an hour and a half. A palliative care physic

Justice committee  All right. I'll give you this. On the timing related to the judicial oversight, the fuller proposal on this is for a tribunal. It could be modelled on the Consent and Capacity Board in Ontario, which hears 6,500 requests a year. They're bound by legislation to turn around respons

Justice committee  I guess our concern is that, at the root of this, we think the integrity of the health care system depends on physicians doing their job, which is to examine and address causes of suffering, not to be authorizing intentional interventions intended to cause death. We should separa

Justice committee  Yes, I agree, but my point was the court saw fit to establish that judicial oversight, and not to simply say that if you have two or three physicians who can attest to someone meeting the eligibility criteria, you can proceed. All I'm saying is the court must have seen judicial

Justice committee  Absolutely, yes.