Health committee  Again, we are out on the street, but not unlike the other workers who are in the homes. It's very similar. Again, we need supports in that whole continuum of the issue to understand how to recognize, how to de-escalate and how to protect when necessary. We need the public to un

Health committee  I could briefly start off. My colleagues may disagree, but I'm sometimes accused of being sort of paralyzed by the need for evidence. There are some fantastic hypotheses brought forward, and we've answered them anecdotally. We need to stop doing that. We need actual research on w

Health committee  Yes, they're most frequently in pairs.

Health committee  This is an issue in Ontario. We have made some headway, as my colleague was discussing, in actually being able to flag residents—

Health committee  No.

Health committee  Ontario is moving at the speed of a glacier in that direction.

Health committee  I'd just like to say I absolutely support what you've said around holding the employers accountable for safety in the workplace, but I think before we do that, we collectively—and hopefully, those in the room here will agree—have an obligation to support them in doing so. If I

Health committee  Absolutely I would agree with that. I don't think the public has a good understanding of the dangers of our jobs. As I quoted at the start, the number of injuries we're seeing is phenomenal. I operate a small ambulance service here in Ontario. It's not very big. It's in Peterbor

Health committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. I would like to start off by thanking you for the invitation to appear here today and for the opportunity to contribute to a crucially important discussion on violence faced by health care workers, and specific to my commu

Public Safety committee  First of all, in my opinion, the Province of Ontario has done a pretty good job of looking at that question when they introduced the bill around presumptive legislation. That legislation requires a diagnosis by a psychiatrist or psychologist using specific tools, a DSM-5 categori

Public Safety committee  We do not really attempt to define a critical incident. A critical incident for each individual person is very different. For someone today, it may be a trauma. For someone else, it may be a death that we would experience in the line of duty. In our normal routines, it's the othe

Public Safety committee  I did stress in my presentation that I think that broader collaboration is critically important. My colleague, Mr. Poirier, described something earlier regarding a foundation that we need to build to support our first responder community. I think that foundation is made up of a l

Public Safety committee  Just very quickly, to give you the paramedic perspective, as you're all aware, we are very much a provincially based organization. That causes some fracturing in our data. We have data, as our friends in the RCMP do, in each of our provinces, but we need a better way to come toge

Public Safety committee  If I could pass that to Mr. Charbonneau, I'd appreciate it.

Public Safety committee  Again through you, Mr. Chair, I think my colleague Mr. Charbonneau may want to add to this, if that's okay. I'd like to start by saying that those exacerbating factors are exactly what I referred to earlier as the multiplicity of stressors. Each of our communities is very differe