Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting us to discuss our ministerial round table on post-traumatic stress disorder. My name is Lori MacDonald, and I am the assistant deputy minister of the Emergency Management and Programs Branch at Public Safety Canada.

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I would very much support the comments Dr. Lanius made. Education is key to prevention. It is one of the big pieces that we have to move forward on in terms of being able to educate, and not just the community. Many people lack awareness of what pos

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I would say that, first of all, one of the things that became very clear to us is that we have to have an integrated approach. The more we work in silos, the less effective we will be, so we should be working with DND, with veterans, with the Health portfolio, with ou

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. We had some very good conversations at the round table around prevention. A couple of key points came out of that. The first point was on early intervention, just to support Doctor Lanius' comment that the earlier we can put prevention in place, obviously, th

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. I'll give a couple of answers to that. First, budgetary pieces are spread across different departments. Within Public Safety, my particular area, I have some resources that are working towards that. Within the portfolio itself, the RCMP would have so

Public Safety committee  Right now we're working with a small budget within Public Safety, and most of the engagement we're doing involves consultations through things like the round table. We have just stood up an assistant deputy minister's steering committee. We'll do the next round table sometime in

Public Safety committee  That's part of what we'll get back to you with.

Public Safety committee  I can speak specifically to the global number of first responders, and I'll give you some percentages. I don't have that data for Veterans Affairs and Defence with me today, but I'll speak to Public Safety. Approximately 250,000 people would fall into the category of public safe

Public Safety committee  We have a few. As an example, we know from some surveys we've done that about 36% of male correctional officers have identified as having post-traumatic stress disorder. At the lower end we have about 7% of police officers, but numbers vary, depending on the study or the survey t

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Actually, we're very fortunate in Public Safety to have such a huge responsibility in terms of our public safety officers. Our minister has a pretty significant role in terms of the Emergency Management Act and his responsibilities in working with the

Public Safety committee  It's a very good question. When we looked at some of the numbers for first responders and we looked at our responsibilities in our portfolio, we made a definitive decision to include them as part of our steering committee because we have to have their voices there. Their number

Public Safety committee  It would.

Environment committee  Good morning. I'm pleased to be here to speak on behalf of Public Safety Canada and my colleagues from Environment and Climate Change Canada, Infrastructure Canada, and the National Research Council of Canada on chapter 2, on federal support to mitigate the effects of severe weat

Environment committee  What we do, Mark, is we take a look at the request that comes from the province or territory with respect to a disaster financial assistance arrangement. If any province or territory puts in a request for what would be counted as a disaster, under a very specific definition that

Environment committee  In our department we have a definition, but it's triggered by a request from the province or territory. Fort McMurray would be an example of that. The province or territory would put forward a request for assistance, and then we would count that in our category of statistics in t