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Health committee Yes.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee I believe there was a provincial study or inquest done in that particular context.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee It wouldn't have been done through the federal process; it would have been done through the provincial process. I would assume there would have been interviews in that context. What we have done, though, is that we have been working with national health professional associations
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee Yes, this is exactly part of the agenda.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee We're hearing reports through the press. I understand from Senator Boyer as well that she's been approached by various women. We've not had an opportunity to meet with Senator Boyer yet. We were scheduled to do so, and her schedule shifted. We are very much looking forward to tha
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee The department, through counsel, is reviewing it through the Department of Justice.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee If you're interested in the specific legal proceedings, it would be better to have the Department of Justice here in order to discuss that.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee I do not, no.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee Again, without having direct interaction with those individuals, with their not coming forward to us specifically, I would say that we do have a variety of programs and services available for indigenous women with respect to mental health supports—and I named some of them earlier
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee The initiatives we're here to speak to with respect to our mandates—my mandate being prevention and promotion of health and safety of first nations and Inuit, and I won't speak on behalf of my colleague's mandate—are really to address the issues in the health care system that are
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee Go ahead, Abby.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee Do you mean the indigenous women's well-being advisory group?
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee The federal-provincial-territorial one.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee That would be the Department of Justice, and I don't have that confirmation.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon
Health committee Again, the Saskatoon Health Region, which is under provincial jurisdiction, did the external review and would have the information around the physicians, the patients, and such. We were not directly involved in the external review process. I just want to clarify that.
January 31st, 2019Committee meeting
Valerie Gideon