Public Safety committee  I am proudly not a lawyer. I would say that I think the ideal situation would be to have a framework in which the federal government and the various provinces would work together on allowing this system to happen. We have similar examples with mandatory reporting of gunshot woun

Public Safety committee  It's taking me a bit outside of my area of my expertise. I'm looking at this as an emergency physician contemplating a situation where I see a patient in front of me who is having suicidal ideation, who has dementia and impulsiveness, or who may be a victim of interpersonal vio

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Anastasia's law is groundbreaking in Canada, and Quebec should be congratulated for bringing it forward. As I said in response to a previous question, there are requirements for confidentiality with respect to what we learn in a doctor-patient relationship, and there

Public Safety committee  As I said at the beginning, we find that a lot of the debate is focused on intentional violence, homicide and other areas of interpersonal violence. The true fact is that three out of four firearm deaths in Canada are suicides. Therefore, that is a great way for us to intervene a

Public Safety committee  Most of those studies I believe were done in the American context. I believe there are some Canadian studies, but as I said in my opening comments, one of the things that we have repeatedly called for is the resources to research—

Public Safety committee  There is actually a restraint on me from reporting things that are held confidential due to the medical relationship, the doctor-patient relationship. However, there are specific areas where I am relieved of my duty of confidentiality, for example, in mandatory reporting of drive

Public Safety committee  Fortunately, or unfortunately, as an emergency physician, I am familiar with being interrupted. To come back to the point regarding our concerns about the red flag law provisions currently in this bill, the requirement to go to court is a significant roadblock to the effectivene

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will speak slower and more clearly. As I said, we want to highlight that three out of every four firearm deaths in Canada are suicide rather than intentional homicide or accidents. In fact, Canada has one of the highest rates of suicide by firearms in the

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good evening. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee. The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, of which I am proud to be a member, is at the forefront of treating patients and families with [Technical difficulty—Editor] tra

Health committee  I apologize. I thought Dr. Drummond was going to lead us off. Thank you for the opportunity to appear. We plan to utilize our time by focusing on the immediate situation of vaccination and the vital need to engage with frontline workers and their associations. There are other po

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. One of the points that we need to emphasize in our recommendations is that there needs to be more opportunity for research, more data gathering, and more information made available. That was a fundamental part of our recommendation, and it's been con

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. It is in line with our recommendation as in our brief and as Dr. Drummond spoke to you about mandatory reporting by physicians of those at risk by virtue of severe mental illness, including temporary risk. Both of those provisions would be in line wi

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I think Dr. Drummond has covered the situation well, and in the interests of time, I don't need to add to that.