Public Safety committee  I would like to respond to that in the sense that I think it is an important issue that needs to be addressed, because there is not enough being done. I would like to suggest that there be one or many centres of excellence that focus on all kinds of responders—first responders an

Public Safety committee  No, but we should be able to slice and dice in order to address these issues. Otherwise we always end up addressing where we flow the money to. We always chase the money, so if the money is there, people do the work. I think instead that if there were resources to study this phen

Public Safety committee  I was not necessarily expressing a concern. I was reflecting that the projections indicate that the costs are going to keep on escalating to a level of $30 million or something. The question, again, was why we're not investing instead of—not instead of, but we should also be supp

Public Safety committee  From what I know, if you do the PET studies looking at cannabinoid receptors, the receptors in the brain that actually bind to components from the marijuana plant, to the tetrahydrocannabinol, you see that those receptors are much more highly expressed in situations such as PTSD

Public Safety committee  I think that doctor put his finger on it by saying that this is symptom relief. It's a temporary symptom relief that people are looking for in the absence of a proper cure.

Public Safety committee  You raise a very important question. There are no answers to it. I think the only way to answer that kind of a question is to have longitudinal studies that study people right from the get-go, from day one all the way through, for quite a few years, and have those biological, psy

Public Safety committee  It is very hard. I think that to pin the success of a treatment to a specific intervention is hard, mainly because the people we treat will tell you that in life they might be doing yoga, doing exercise, or engaging in spirituality. Many of these interventions have an impact. It

Public Safety committee  You point to a very critical issue in the sense that at least in the military, where they keep very close tabs on the number of suicides that occur and the causes of suicide, half of the people who end up committing suicide have already been in some kind of care. The other half h

Public Safety committee  Yes, I think so. For example, I will give you a situation in Ottawa, where the Senators coach's daughter, Daron, committed suicide. When this became public—it was very good that the parents were brave enough to make it public—what happened was amazing. We were trying to figure o

Public Safety committee  Excuse me, but I'll answer you again in English, if you don't mind.

Public Safety committee  I think that's an interesting point you raise. I think if you look at the body's response to trauma.... Trauma does not just have to be a physical trauma or an emotional trauma. There could be traumas of many types, and often it could be a combination of the two. The conference

Public Safety committee  That's a very important question, and there's not an easy answer to it. I think that there are many factors that result in somebody developing mental illness. In society as a whole there are many different segments that have different kinds of stressors and different kinds of cha

Public Safety committee  I agree. I think you already had a presentation on a single event with two people in a car accident responding very differently to the accident and then eventually developing very different types of post-traumatic stress disorder. That talks about the individual differences. I

Public Safety committee  Absolutely.

Public Safety committee  Yes, it is starting to show. It has taken a while. What is interesting to see is that the genetic aberrations that you see in mental illness seem go with a whole bunch of genes simultaneously. It has not been a simple situation of one gene, one illness. That's what we were hoping