Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Through you, Chair, we'll find out tomorrow. Ontario is going to be the lead on this. R2MR has just been “paramedicafied”, if I can call it that. As we understand it, it's about looking out for each other and knowing if you're in that stop, caution

Public Safety committee  It's part of a toolbox. I can speak from my own personal experience. Last year we put all the paramedics in Frontenac County through compassion fatigue training with a psychologist, and it was very well received. It was awareness not only of yourself, but of your partner and ever

Public Safety committee  That's a very good question. I've worked across this province all the way up to James Bay, where there were four of us looking after Moosonee. The young aboriginal paramedics who worked with me often picked up their family members, and it was very traumatic to them. We would tr

Public Safety committee  Thank you, and through you, Mr. Chair, the Road to Mental Readiness program has actually just been adopted for the paramedic world. Tomorrow, in Toronto, the Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs is holding a whole day of meetings around mental wellness, and this will be brough

Public Safety committee  I think the stressors are becoming more and more visible to our community, which is very important. Just to add to the comments about the young paramedic recruit, 40 years ago when I became a paramedic in Toronto, we didn't talk about this in my training of four weeks. Some 15 ye