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April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you, Mr. Stringer, for your helpful testimony. It's very appreciated. Hopefully you can add more as the questions come. I appreciate that. Mrs. Fortier.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Okay, we're going to reconvene and start the committee again. I'd like to welcome Mr. Gordon Stringer, who is the father of Rowan Stringer, who died in 2013 after sustaining a head injury while playing rugby. Mr. Stringer is an advocate for concussion awareness and education.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much. On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank both of you for your excellent presentation today and for providing the information and disseminating so much important information to us. We greatly appreciate that.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee We're going to suspend the committee for five minutes while we change panels.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you, Mr. Fergus. In conclusion, we will finish up with three minutes for Ms. Hardcastle.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much. I hate to interrupt when there's such important information being put on the table. Mr. Fergus.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much. I gave you a little extra time. We're now going to go into five-minute questions, and we're going to start with Mr. Richards.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much. Mr. Fisher.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee What a butter-up.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee You had a nice little visual display for us earlier, and I appreciate your pointing that out. I recall my days in school, and I'll go back to the coup-contrecoup injury. Some theorists would say it's a coup-contrecoup-coup injury because of the whiplash effect. Some of the resear
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee In your concluding statements, you talked about a national concussion awareness week. Tell us what you mean by that. What does it entail? Is it purely that we put that out there and then everybody forgets about it? What do you envision with that?
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee That's great. Thank you very much. I appreciate your comments. Being a subcommittee, we have a little more leeway than others, so I'm trying to allow people a little extra time when we do. I would like to recognize that in the back of the room we have some students from the Uni
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative
Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee Thank you very much for being here. I appreciate your presentation. It's truly fabulous, as you go through it step by step. You talked about whiplash and the whiplash effect. When I went to school—and that's a few years ago; we won't say how many—we studied coup-contrecoup injur
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
The Vice-Chair (Mr. Robert Kitchen)Conservative