Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Exactly. You don't want to lose any playing time—and I'm guilty of this for a shoulder injury—because you're doing something you enjoy. Or maybe it's the playoffs and you don't want to lose the opportunity for that and let your team down. Knowing all of these reasons is reall

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Those are the psychological or mental health consequences that occur after a concussive impact. We were just getting fancy there.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  And how to find it, how to notice that it's happening in your peers....

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It just stems from our passion for hockey.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  In work, in sport, in recreational activity—

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It had its first reading.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  We had an interesting choice of words there, but in our opinion, every moment that we don't do something about concussions makes it a growing problem, because there are more and more consequences of it. That was why. When we're talking about statistics, it's an interesting quest

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  I don't know what you mean by that.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That includes mental health-related management strategies too.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  The key thing is that the brain is not tethered within the cerebrospinal fluid, so it does bump around and get damaged. This conversation reminds me of the conversation we were having recently about helmets. There's a conversation about whether helmets help prevent concussions an

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  That's another reason to have a national centre of excellence in concussion research.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  And that it is taking it seriously....

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  It's an opportunity for those who maybe don't think about it on a day-to-day basis to pay attention to it and spend some time thinking about what it means to them. I kind of think of it in the same way as Earth Day, which just happened. We do lots of activities around Earth Day.

Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada committee  To go back to your point of when policy items are voluntary versus mandatory, there is some research that has shown that the voluntary components of certain policies and legislation in the United States, compared with the mandatory elements, are not implemented quite as much. Tha