Finance committee  Let me tell you another story about a northern community where they had suicides on a regular basis with two different cohorts. One cohort was older teenagers, 17- and 18-year-olds, and the other one was 10- and 11-years-olds. Every month they were losing members of their small c

Finance committee  We've been working on this for a number of years. Several of us who live and breathe youth suicide and who want to make a difference have been working on this particular ask for several years and have shared everything with the Mental Health Commission of Canada. It's quite hones

Finance committee  Thank you for the question, but more importantly, thank you for the stance you've taken very publicly on mental health.

Finance committee  I've had the opportunity to hear you speak. It's very impressive, but it's very bold on your part to do that. In terms of the Nuremberg model, it did start small but now has stretched across Europe. The European Alliance Against Depression has actually taken the initial pilot w

Finance committee  I think that to a certain extent there's some scalability. What I mean by that is, how many communities do you need to actually have that heterogeneity? I know that we've looked at different models. The minimum is probably 12 to 14 communities to be able to do that. It's less tha

Finance committee  We've talked a lot about evidence. I think one of the major root causes we look at through evidence is the underlying link to mental health and mental illness. We can see from psychological autopsies after the fact that for a large proportion of young people who die by suicide, t

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to address this critical issue for Canadians. Michael Kirby, who is the driving force behind this effort, sends his best wishes and his thanks for hearing this issue. You probably already know the statist