Human Resources committee  In the hospitals there are kiosks where you fill out the information to get the birth certificate, the social insurance number and the health card all at once. It would be similar to that, especially if you're in a NICU or PICU situation. If something does happen, it can be done

Human Resources committee  There's a family in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia. The mother died in childbirth and the baby died nine days later. The father is self-employed with a toddler, but he's not able to access anything because he's self-employed. He has to go back to work and his work is dealing

Human Resources committee  That is in Great Britain. It was in the spring.

Human Resources committee  Yes. It was an MP who actually started this, because her child died and she pretty much went bankrupt to bury him, given the associated costs. It took her eight years to get legislation in, but it did pass in the spring.

Human Resources committee  It's from birth to either 16 or 18.

Human Resources committee  Yes, those are certainly the big ones that the HUMA committee would concentrate on. It also has to be taken into account that without the support of the health care system itself, leave is only as good as the supports you get. I would think it would have to be done in concert wit

Human Resources committee  I would like to answer that. To start with, I have a few points. The first would be to have comprehensive information on a website about what steps are to be taken after a loss—a database of help information. Michelle LaFontaine mentioned release forms to trigger certain things

Human Resources committee  Sands is probably the biggest one. They've been around for 40 years and they also have branches in Australia. In fact, just this spring the U.K. implemented legislation to pay for funerals for all children under the age of—it's either 16 or 18. The U.K. government is paying for a

Human Resources committee  Yes, they actually do research and they train doctors and midwives, which is the nursing program over there, very comprehensively on bereavement. Two out of three hospitals that have maternity wards in the U.K. have bereavement suites, which allow for “memory making” and a lot of

Human Resources committee  We only started a little over a year ago, so funding is interesting. We actually have no money. A lot of grants aren't geared toward bereavement. Having to basically play the system to try to make what you're doing fit the grants is tricky. We're actually doing a training sessi

Human Resources committee  I would think that part of it is counselling. If you've cancelled the health card and social insurance number and a death certificate has been issued, there should be some line of code, or something that triggers a flag in the system that would let Service Canada or the CRA and t

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  If a health card has been cancelled, there's a reason for that. If a death certificate has been issued and you let the government know, there's a reason for that. That's one department. There's no reason to be sending out money for a child that is no longer alive. There are syste

Human Resources committee  It was frustrating to begin with, because you don't want to have to deal with those sorts of things, staying on the phone for hours, or having to go into specific offices if you can't stay on the phone. It just adds a burden on top of everything else. If you can't get out of bed,

Human Resources committee  The people I talked to were understanding but there was nothing they could do because of the system, the processes that were in place. Those processes need to be altered to allow for compassion.