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Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee If I may, can you give us an idea of how in the next weeks we're going to continue with the exercise we're doing, just to understand the calendar? This is for the brief submissions—
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Excellent. We continue to meet with witnesses until...?
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee We have the whole calendar already organized for that.
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much.
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Has the research you've done or the stories you've heard given you ideas on how to change the culture and the way the game is played in order to protect athletes from concussions? If so, can you give us some examples?
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee I gather that you want to continue making the game of football safer. Although changes have already been made, my guess is there is still some work to do. Can you give us an example or two of how you're currently working on that front?
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witnesses for their presentations. I know it's important to talk about the mental health of athletes, sports participants and young people. That said, since our subcommittee's mandate is to study sports-related concussions, it would be u
April 3rd, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee With the work that is being done right now in Ontario—I didn't go through all the documentation—are you aware of whether an evaluation of Rowan's Law will be done in a few years to see if something else should be addressed? As you say, it's a template. Is there an exercise for ma
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much for being here and sharing your testimony. Honestly, I would prefer hearing you sharing with us what else the federal government should be looking at. If you have any specific recommendations that we could look at, I would appreciate hearing that from you.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee You'll be fine. We trust you on this.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee I also greatly appreciate your second priority, which is the implementation of a pan-Canadian concussion strategy and the creation of a research centre. At this committee, we met with a witness who was studying the brains of athletes. I asked him a question about his study—it co
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee This past weekend, I attended a volleyball tournament involving teams composed of 17- and 18-year-old women. Three women on the teams couldn't play because they had just suffered concussions. This happens all the time. I spoke with their parents. They're also concerned that not e
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Mona FortierLiberal