Veterans Affairs committee  Pediatricians, as a result of this, now have a program whereby they do a warm handover. Instead of your being a patient of a pediatrician and then moving across the country and going to the bottom of the waiting list and working your way up, there is now a warm handover. That mil

Veterans Affairs committee  One of the things we've heard from families is they identify as a military family. They're a military family forever. Oftentimes what happens is the care that's available, as limited as it might be in some locations, is focused on the individual. It's partly silos, partly privacy

Veterans Affairs committee  I can't speak specifically for VAC, but by and large families are neglected after a crisis.

Veterans Affairs committee  We're certainly hearing from spouses and family members that they too have a need for peer support. It's being able to chat with another spouse at three o'clock in the morning because they finally got their partner back into bed, calmed down, asleep and resting. Now they're wired

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. It's always a pleasure to be here. I'll be talking about transition through a family lens. I'll share with you some of the findings on the work-to-retirement transition and how it applies, or not, to military and vet

Veterans Affairs committee  No.

Veterans Affairs committee  What we're hearing from military families—and we do have a significant military veteran family initiative under way—is that many of them are reluctant to access services delivered by DND or VAC because they don't want to get labelled or, as somebody described it, lost in the vort

Veterans Affairs committee  Having listened to hundreds of family stories, I think there are three things. One, definitely link recruitment with retirement. As Mark said, young people don't think about retirement. There are the three i's: I'm immortal, I'm infertile, and I'm invincible. It's hard to get the

Finance committee  Thank you for the invitation to join you today. You've heard from business, energy and financial services. I'm here to talk to you about families in Canada. Families are the engine of our economy and the cornerstone of our society. Families are the primary caregivers, helping p

Finance committee  The most significant impact is that families have a predictable income. It's not a lot, but per child it makes a big difference. In fact, for those at the low end of the income spectrum, it can mean the difference between using a food bank or not. We've seen the population profil

Finance committee  Yes, we have those. I don't have them off the top of my head, but I would be happy to provide them for you. They're not extensive, but we do have information about how people are spending or saving for education, and for those who are not, what kinds of impediments lead to their

Finance committee  Right now we have a couple of existing indices—one that looks at individuals, one that looks at children and youth, one that looks at communities—and we're developing one that looks at families, which sort of ties it all together and makes sense of it all. What we're looking at

Finance committee  Sure.

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Hello, everyone. It's good to be back with you. It seems like just a few days since we last met in Ottawa, and it seems like a lifetime ago. Here we are in this new normal, or new interim normal anyway, and although I'd prefer to be there with you in person, it's

Finance committee  I'd be most happy to.