Justice committee  Typically, you're going to look for smell, symptoms the person who's impaired might be exhibiting, whether it's red eyes, how they're talking, or slurred speech. You build your grounds that way and conduct the investigation. At a certain point, when you've formed the suspicion th

Justice committee  That's the hope, absolutely.

Justice committee  I think there's a significant amount of impaired driving now.

Justice committee  Whether or not, I think people are anticipating there will be more impaired driving with the introduction of legislation—

Justice committee  I guess my answer is there's already an overwhelming amount of impaired driving, so I'm not sure that there will be more or if we're going to capture it better because we're going to be tracking both impaired driving by alcohol and also by drug, whereas historically we focused mo

Justice committee  Absolutely. I think the announcement was a welcome announcement. I think there are lots of follow-on discussions about to happen around how those funds are going to be allocated and how we make sure that the appropriate funds get to local police forces so they can build the capac

Justice committee  Honourable members, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this evening as you continue your study of Bill C-46. I note that there are some familiar faces around the table, but for those of you who may not be aware, I'm appearing before you tonight as the president o

Public Safety committee  Specific to your question, I alluded earlier to some surveying we're doing directly with our members. We're identifying some pretty startling outcomes particularly around PTSD, where we're including some diagnostic skills on the survey tools we're using. On average about 30% of o

Public Safety committee  In my opinion, and I think you've heard a lot about this from Ms. Bradley as well—and I agree with her—we have programs like the road to mental readiness that are being adopted. She referred to the psychological standards in the workplace, which organizations are very slow to ado

Public Safety committee  There's nothing specific. We are just starting to survey our own organizations in Canada. We have a network of affiliations internationally where this is now something that we've added to the agenda to start having a discussion about, to discuss best practices and similarities.

Public Safety committee  One of the things I see is that we need to first of all come up with some common understanding of what we're talking about. Let's define terms like “occupational stress injury” or “PTSD” clearly. Let's all talk the same talk. You can talk to different groups or advocates in this

Public Safety committee  No. That's the short answer. We've done a terrible job of tracking, and I think that's tied a little bit into this notion of stigma and an unwillingness in our culture, in particular, to acknowledge the scope of the problem and the fact that it is an issue that must be tracked. W

Public Safety committee  Typically what people look to are the front-line police officers who are wearing the uniform and responding to calls for service and ambulance paramedics wearing uniforms and who are responding. It's the same for firefighters. We have a number of people who work in policing, in

Public Safety committee  Sure. I have a colleague who killed himself on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2014. He was working a project targeting a number of high-level criminals. He was away from home working an excessive amount of overtime for an extended period of time, away from his two young children an

Public Safety committee  There was work done by Professor Linda Duxbury a few years ago. She's at Carleton University. She found—and this is a huge contributor I think, particularly in the police community—that most police officers were working an excessive number of hours on a weekly basis. Let's say ro