Justice committee  That's correct, yes.

Justice committee  Absolutely, yes. There's a bit of a gap in what you're saying, and that's why. Yes, I get it.

Justice committee  That there is variability, yes.

Justice committee  In my experience, it's more likely that they have the information. I've been in the field for a number of years, and the nuances about what we call “mental illness” or “mental disorder” have been here for the last 20 to 30 years. However, it doesn't change the way we work on the

Justice committee  It would very simply not be applicable. The probation officer would say if it's not an applicable field. We're just asking them to—

Justice committee  Because this isn't a new practice, my understanding of jurisdictions where they do it is that it's based on the evidence available. The probation officers already have to make those decisions every day when they're writing pre-sentence reports about what is pertinent information.

Justice committee  I hear you now. I now have audio.

Justice committee  Yes. I've worked as a forensic psychologist throughout part of my career, and I know that probation officers and others spend a lot of time putting these pre-sentence reports together. It's just about having standards of what they bring into that. It's not a lot of extra work, if

Justice committee  That's great. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, members of the committee. Thank you for inviting us here today. My name is Dr. Patrick Smith. I'm the National CEO of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Bill C-375 is a very important bill to us. I would definitely hav

Finance committee  I was head of the addiction psychiatry division at U of T, and then also founding head of the addiction psychiatry program at UBC, so addictions have kind of been my career. Fetal alcohol syndrome is, as you're saying, completely preventable. One of the things, though, that we ha

Finance committee  There are certain areas because of the social determinants of health. Clearly, we know that in the indigenous communities and some of the areas where there's more poverty, there are going to be more stressors and therefore you're going to have higher incidence of mental health is

Finance committee  I think Canada has some of the best leaders in that. When we went to the International Institute of Mental Health Leadership in Australia and were looking at some of the workplaces in corporate Australia and corporate U.K. People look to corporate Canada. Actually, because of the

Finance committee  I was going to quickly add that when we're working with the provinces across the country, they often like to see how it has worked in another province, so that they have the actual evidence. For Canada, you can actually see that with the U.K. It's not selling this kind of pie-i

Finance committee  It is one in five, and the other four are the family member, the colleague, the co-worker. What we try to say, and as Prime Minister Trudeau so eloquently said in his post during Mental Health Week, mental health affects everyone. Every one of us has physical health. Some days w

Finance committee  Yes, and I think this is also documented in the Mental Health Commission's mental health strategy. We have a mental health strategy from the commission, but it's not an action-based strategy that we're talking about here. The G7 country with the lowest spending on mental health