Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you.

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank Dr. Douglas and Dr. Suter for joining us today and providing their testimony. I want to begin by reading from the 2014 report by the European Medicines Agency. It stated, “There is enough evidence from the presented drug safety reports, the

Veterans Affairs committee  That's an excellent question in terms of why somebody would ask specifically for mefloquine. As far as I can see, there's no literature to look at that question. That would certainly be a good research question to put out there. You mentioned other drugs, but that they also car

Veterans Affairs committee  Doctor, thank you for sharing that. This goes to your earlier comments. You spoke about the development of a national information registry and an information campaign, combined with what you have just raised with respect to medical schools arming the next generation of doctors

Veterans Affairs committee  The data is showing, in fact, that the department spent in the 2016-17 fiscal year, $63.7 million on medicinal cannabis. That amount was triple the amount that it had spent the year before. Simultaneously it reduced the limit from 10 grams per day to three grams per day. Based o

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question for the physicians, the doctors here with us today and the researchers. In 2016, Veterans Affairs Canada reduced the maximum allowable reimbursement limit for medical marijuana from 10 grams to three grams per day. They also established a

Veterans Affairs committee  On a point of order, Mr. Chair, can we get some order in the room, please?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for that. Captain Ralph, you're the national program director of Wounded Warriors Canada, and, Lieutenant-General, you are with Soldiers Helping Soldiers. Can you talk about the importance of incorporating veterans into helping veterans? We've heard many times about th

Veterans Affairs committee  So veterans can play a very important role in complementing the work of professionals and those who are working to serve veterans. I'm trying to connect the two. If there are services, programs and shelters out there that don't have the expertise in how best to speak the language

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Lieutenant-General, Captain, Doctor, thank you very much for being here. You folks represent the great work that is being done to support our veterans. At the same time, while veterans may be in contact with you and the organizations that you work with, the

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank Mr. Howard and Mr. Richter for joining us today in our meeting. I really appreciate and value the optimism, Mr. Richter, that you shared. You said that we know what to do and we know how to do it. We pointed out in today's meeting the fact t

Veterans Affairs committee  That's an excellent point. I know, Mr. Howard, you talked about having wraparound services when you built those villages for the homeless veterans. Can you talk about what those wraparound services are? I think it aligns very much with what Mr. Richter just talked about in terms

Veterans Affairs committee  Mr. Howard, you would know that nine of the federal VAC offices that were shut down have been reopened over the past three years, and an additional office was opened in Surrey. VAC is working very hard to further their outreach into northern and indigenous communities as well. In

Veterans Affairs committee  Our committee has met with veterans and has heard from many of them. I know for a fact that there's a caseworker assigned now per veteran, somebody whom they can contact, and that has been very effective in providing more direct service. A lot of these programs will hopefully, ov

Veterans Affairs committee  I want to start off by thanking Inspector Yee and Constable Smith for their work. It's really good to see that the Vancouver Police Department sees the issue of homelessness as one that needs to involve outreach. That's very important. You have a policing role but also a role to