Health committee  I think there's interest. Certainly, there's a great movement in cultural competency training, but do we have measures to demonstrate the impact of cultural competency and client outcomes? We don't have that data currently. I know there's greater interest in the College of Famil

Health committee  I'd like to go back to my earlier comments related to methadone. We've had significant issues related to methadone clinics and risk to first nations communities. I believe in methadone. It's an absolutely necessary part of the solution. But when the solution is absent of and di

Health committee  We've demonstrated the results.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  As I was saying earlier, a number of pilot programs have been tested and have demonstrated good evidence, but there has never been any continuity to those programs, and the investment in them has often been short term. We do have a demonstration. We do have the evidence. There ar

Health committee  Continuity is lacking, yes.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I was the director of a youth treatment centre for 13 years. In that time, we had 100% of the youth completing the program. Nationally, in any program, mainstream or first nations, the outcome is 50%. Not only did they complete their course of treatment, they also returned to sch

Health committee  One of the things I'd like to contribute to the answers among the panel is that this framework talks about the paradigm shifts that are necessary to implement this—so it's systems change—and one of them is in the background colour of this model. The colour is what they call “P.E.

Health committee  We've developed an early intervention program. It's called “Buffalo Riders”. It educates primarily grades 7 and 8 children at risk of substance use, but it's also in every community. We've implemented this program in a number of first nations communities. They have found the curr

Health committee  They need to be held accountable for the education they provide. We've seen that history with Purdue Pharma, specifically with the misinformation they provided to prescribers related to the issues of OxyContin. The only other one I would add to your list, now that I have the mik

Health committee  We need more education on harm reduction. I want to recognize Minister Philpott's championing of harm reduction in international conversations. We need to apply that at home. We need much more investment in educational resources to support harm reduction.

Health committee  I want to clarify. It's not just a northern Canada issue; it's first nations, indigenous communities. While in northern, remote, and isolated communities, we have transportation issues and access to stabilized health human resources, the opioid crisis is not just in remote, isola

Health committee  Right.