Human Resources committee  I will add to what Professor Cadell was saying by mentioning the movement called “compassionate communities”. Ottawa has signed on to this movement as a city. It's a movement that was started in the public health palliative care community. It is focused on bringing an awareness o

Human Resources committee  That's a great question, and a really fabulous example, historically, is looking at what happened with maternity benefits. Maternity, pregnancy, has kind of swung from something that happened with midwives to something that happened in hospital to something that's happening with

Human Resources committee  Go ahead, Moire.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I would like to begin by thanking the committee for taking so seriously an issue that has simply not had a public place to be voiced. I come to this panel as an academic. I'm a medical anthropologist with 15 years of experience researching socio-cultural issues in de