Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  The reason that I'm going with that is that there are some risks with other sports that are out there, and I was just wondering if you guys had any experience along those lines. Do you have any friends that maybe played volleyball and basically took a ball in the head? Can you co

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you very much for that. Kathy.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I remember, when I first took skiing we didn't wear helmets. Mind you, we were wearing wooden skis and strap bindings in those days, as well as lace-up boots. That was a few years ago, in the Maritimes. As Ash pointed out, it's the sporting body that has made changes, for exampl

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Matthew, I'm impressed as heck by you, a 13-year-old boy who's this confident and open. I thank you very much for being here. You impress me tremendously. We talked a bit about the respect for sport. My thought is that, okay, we've done a lot of things in

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I'd be happy to tag team with you and do that.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Actually, there is.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you both very much for being here today. With the two of you here, we basically have the coaching aspect and an individual sport aspect of things. Although you interact with each other, you do have separate responsibilities. I appreciate h

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  In my previous life I was a regulator for the chiropractic profession in Saskatchewan as well as for Canada. We looked at things involving regulating professionals, which is where my angle on this is. Is there an avenue for you to do this? Obviously, there's a cost that would b

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Your emphasis, then, is more on that aspect of it, in which case that might throw it to the individual sports per se to regulate their own individuals. Would you agree with that? Would that be the better way of doing it?

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you. Mr. Hunter, having been a rugby coach myself at one point, I appreciate your comments on tackling. To me, that is the most important thing. I learned the game in England when I was six years old, so I grew up learning how to tackle from that age. I found, once I cam

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Throughout sport—and we look at hockey today, as we see hockey growing up—we now have trainers involved with sporting organizations, which is something we didn't have before. We had people on the bench who recognized.... When I was playing rugby at the University of Waterloo, the

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Dr. Zemek and Ms. Fuselli, thank you very much for coming here today. We appreciate it. I'm going to follow up on what Mr. Fisher was mentioning about the reality of rural Canada and where we deal with that. Some of the greatest hockey players in Canada

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I agree that in the perfect world, health care would be attached to one....and particularly in sport. We heard that from our coaches as well as sport-specific...where you could track that. We see how in rugby someone with a head injury wil

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I'm a big believer in education. I believe the more we can get out there to our parents, to our coaches, to our trainers such that they're aware of that.... The risk you have is that, as practitioners have seen, you'll get someone who walks in your door, and they've gone on the I

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you both for being here. I appreciate it. Dr. Hobden, you talked about protocols and the issue.... I think it's important that we address that because the reality is that when we're looking at people knowing the level they're at, they may not see th