Health committee  Not really. We had to deal with the blood crisis and we had an inquiry into that. We had the AIDS issue and we had the smoking programs, but in terms of this particular virus that has hit us as a country, that has hit the world, I haven't seen anything like it. If you go back i

Health committee  Thank you for the question. With regard to mental health, I think the number of cases has significantly increased in terms of the numbers of questions and students reaching out for forms of comfort and attention. The anxiety level is beyond what we've all seen in the past, and w

Health committee  As all of us who have gone to university know, students would like to work during the summer months to help to pay for their tuition and for their finances going forward. The program is certainly welcome, but what are employers going to do? Are they going to be reaching out to ha

Health committee  I think timing is of immense importance in the process going forward. I think if you would call upon all of the various stakeholders, they would probably agree that some clear national standards that we all buy into would be very helpful for those who are on the front lines. I a

Health committee  That's an excellent question, and let me try to respond to it in two parts. The first part is that I think many governments federally and provincially have followed up on the SARS recommendations. Where I think we may have fallen down as a society has been in our failure to put

Health committee  I can't respond to the specifics that you're raising, but the World Health Organization is a very reliable and sophisticated partner as it relates to health throughout the world. It would seem to me that this is probably something the committee would want to take under adviseme

Health committee  I think it's a bit of a tragedy, in that we have a number of professionals within our post-secondary institutions across the country who cannot gain access as doctors or nurses or what have you. There are ways to get around that. I think there needs to be a bridging program for p

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, members. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I would like to have my written text attached to the proceedings under written proceedings, and thereafter I'd like to make seven brief comments as part of my opening statement.

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I did circulate my written text to the committee yesterday, as requested. However, I have just seven fairly quick points. One is to congratulate members of this particular standing committee for the role you're playing with regard to reviewing