Finance committee  Yes, thank you for your questions, Ms. Koutrakis. I agree with Sherri about looking at ways in which we can incentivize people to make donations, to continue to participate in supporting the charitable sector. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the weaknesses of every system a

Finance committee  It's a great question, and it's one of the things we're looking at. In the research we're asking people where they get their information from. Is it better to have it on paper, to get it digitally, or to get it from a friend or a trusted adviser? What we're finding so far across

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, and thanks for the opportunity to spend a little time with you this afternoon. This has been a time of disruption—a time of difficulty for some, a time of opportunity for others and certainly a time of adaptation and adjustment for us all. This disruption has cha

Human Resources committee  Oh, I'm sorry. Fear was highest in early April, and it was also lowest in early April. If you were very afraid, it was high in April, or not at all afraid, also high in April. You can see by just these few examples that there is a lot we can learn from the data that has been co

Human Resources committee  Sure. We had a ton of data that model very clearly that women are disproportionately affected by COVID. There's no question. Financially, physically, emotionally, intellectually—all of that—they are much more impacted. We know that this is particularly so for women who are at

Human Resources committee  Absolutely.

National Defence committee  Good afternoon, and thank you, Karen. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony today. I would like to acknowledge that our meeting is being held on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people and to pay my respects to indigenous elders past, p

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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