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Status of Women committee  No, I have nothing to add. Thank you.

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  The child care benefit has certainly had a positive impact on families and family life. What we've been asking during COVID.... In the early days of COVID, one of the highest levels of stress and anxiety was related to financial stress. People were worried they weren't going to

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  Mental health has been a concern for a long time. COVID has magnified, amplified and intensified the need for our understanding and recognition of the importance of mental health. The research is clear. People who are trying to balance work and family and provide care during COV

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I think the question about managing multiple responsibilities at home, work and in the community is critically important for us to understand. There are public supports and then there are workplace supports. Andrea can speak specifically about some of the leave provi

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  Research is showing very clearly that connections make the difference. You can be living alone in a single-person household, but if you have connections, whether it's over the phone, online or in person, you will be in a position to achieve greater success and to experience less

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that great question. It has been a really important period of time for social research. We have this unexpected opportunity to deeply understand the dynamics and the interplay with families and community. A big part of that is the role that caregivers play. When w

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

Status of Women committee  Good day and thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony here today. I would like to first acknowledge our meeting on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people and pay my respects to indigenous elders past, present and emerging. It's an honour t

December 10th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  I want to mention that one of the things we've been studying about COVID is the fact that what makes it particularly unique is that as people are responding, whether they are health care, emergency services or military members, they are also going through it at exactly the same t

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  I think the first thing is to treat the whole family unit as the core, so that it's not the military member and their family, but it's the military member's family who needs to be at the centre of any intervention and any treatment. It sounds like it's a little thing, but it's re

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  The evidence bears that out. You're absolutely right.

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  Families play a very important role in first identifying that there may be a problem. They play a very important role in searching through the various types of information to sort of nudge their family member to supports that might be most effective. They play a really important

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  I think the road to mental readiness program is an excellent example of translating a very complex issue and coming up with evidence-based programs that are accessible and available—and yes, military families have had access. Lieutenant Colonel Suzanne Bailey and I have presente

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  That's a very important and large question. Madam Chair, we've been conducting polls of families week over week since March. The impacts of COVID on families and family life has been quite dramatic, but not all tragic. A lot of families are actually doing quite well. It does

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  This is a really important line of inquiry, because families are often the very first people to identify that something's off. They will see it long before the individual person, in terms of their own self-assessment or self-awareness. They'll begin to see little things that just

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks

National Defence committee  Thank you for that question. As you mentioned, more families now are living off base than on base. This reality has taken place over the last several decades. Now the vast majority are living off base and their spouses or partners are more likely to be in the paid labour force.

December 4th, 2020Committee meeting

Nora Spinks