Health committee  That was Colorado state, consumption of cannabis-infused brownies. Now that wasn't the death. The death was the result of the person jumping off a hotel balcony, so it's an associated death, but it wasn't metabolically related to the consumption.

Health committee  Yes, that's just to clarify.

Health committee  Good afternoon. Thank you again for the invitation to present to you today. While the overall prevalence of methamphetamine use is low, at approximately 0.2% of the Canadian population, the impact of its use on individuals, families, friends and communities is extremely high. As

Health committee  I would say that at our current place in time, there are some people who are ideologically opposed to thinking differently about the situation in which we find ourselves. They think that people who use drugs inappropriately have no one to blame except themselves and that if they

Health committee  I'll just add that when we talk about harm reduction, it's not just about supervised consumption facilities. It can also include drug testing facilities, in which technology has not advanced as far or as rapidly as we would like it to have. The federal government has just annou

Health committee  Unfortunately, I can't. I don't have the data, partially because we don't track drug-specific economic data in that way. Perhaps Donald or someone else could comment.

Health committee  Certainly there are more generic addiction programs across the country that support families of people living with addictions. I'm not aware of any that are specifically focused on the loved ones of people who use methamphetamines. There are certainly family support groups, eithe

Health committee  I can simply say that we don't have that information. It's not reported at the level of granularity that we need it to be. If you want to know how much meth costs our society, how much it costs our health care system, we can't answer that question because it doesn't get reported

Health committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for the invitation to present to you today. First, I want to acknowledge that I am joining today's meeting from the ancestral and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe peoples. The Canadian Public Health Associatio

Health committee  It would be tremendous if the agency had the authority to mandate that, but unfortunately they do not. That is one of the calls we are making in this request for federal legislation that would give the federal government a greater role in coordinating public health efforts across

Health committee  Yes, thank you for the question. In fact our organization is focused much more on the upstream side of the health system, looking at actually keeping people out of those triage systems in the first place. I do want to point out regarding the previous question that Justice Campb

Health committee  You're right that modelling is helpful. It's helpful for the system to be able to anticipate what might be coming down the road. It is not an exact science by any stretch, as so many variables can impact where those numbers go. As I said in my remarks, I still believe that the i

Health committee  I think the government is fundamentally pulling out all the stops to get as much PPE out to communities as necessary. It does speak to the issue of the national emergency stockpile and how it is managed. I think closer collaboration among the federal government and provincial an

Health committee  Certainly. I'll contrast it to SARS. SARS we knew very little about. We didn't know it was airborne until the crisis was fundamentally over. In contrast, with COVID-19 we've done the genomic sequences in an incredibly fast turnaround. We have a variety of diagnostic tests and w

Health committee  Generally speaking, yes. It is the role of the Public Health Agency of Canada, in an emergency like this, to develop supplementary guidelines so there is some consistency across the country.