Health committee  I'm looking at Greg. Perhaps he'd like to answer.

Health committee  I don't have anything to add.

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. If we draw on the first principles of what we know about suicide research and mental health, we know more social supports and more social connections really matter. The reason is that if you're in a low moment when you're feeling quite down, perhaps feeling sui

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. Research that was done in Vancouver led by Dr. Elizabeth Saewyc looked very carefully at school districts over the last 10 years in B.C. that implemented policies allowing for GSAs and found marked reduction in suicide ideation in those schools. So we do have evi

Health committee  I think they are life-saving and I don't think banning them should be allowed. Doing that is denying youth a resource that we know can potentially save their lives.

Health committee  It's an excellent first step. Suicide prevention lines are a wonderful way to engage people who are acutely suicidal in a moment of crisis. What we need beyond that is a place to refer people once they have identified that they have a mental health need and that they're suicidal

Health committee  I'm not aware of any data. In fact, the sex now survey that I quoted is the only data source that I've found that could quantify exposure to conversion therapy, and we think that's an underestimation, because a lot of folks who are exposed to conversion therapy won't turn up in L

Health committee  I can briefly speak to what we've seen in the Canadian community health survey, which are higher rates of the mental health outcomes we talked about affecting lesbian and bisexual women than heterosexual women. There is ongoing research in the United States that suggests that se

Health committee  I would start with Statistics Canada because it has several national surveys that measure health-related outcomes. I think there's already work under way, but it could broaden the consultations to understand what specific measures should be added. There need to be, as we've allud