Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  Sure. Some of the big misconceptions that I deal with regularly are the close tying and connection of suicides to mental health. There's a myth out there that all people who die by suicide, or 90%—and many advocacy organizations still have this number—have mental health issues.

Health committee  It's more than time.

Health committee  We have a model in B.C. that accesses some federal funding called the Foundry. It's building integrated drop-in centres for youth that include health and wellness as well as mental health access. I think it could be a really good role for funding, yes.

Health committee  I'll try to be brief then. Any time we have an opportunity to listen to indigenous voices and develop programs that work for indigenous people, we should embrace it. We should fund it. This would be an anti-colonial approach of centring power in indigenous hands. I would be in s

Health committee  It's probably well known that, politically, wait times are a thing. The publishing of surgical wait times and ER wait times is something that has a tremendous amount of political power. This generates ideas to improve the situation from all members of politics. In the same way,

Health committee  It's very frustrating. This happens in hospitals, where bed decisions and treatment decisions are changed based upon staffing levels. This is something that we encounter regularly. You can make a space, but it needs bodies, as Ms. Digout was mentioning. We need people doing wha

Health committee  I've just switched back. I'm still trying to figure out the headset because I didn't test this one—my apologies. The ASARI and the HEARTSMAP tools, when used, can be really helpful in both documenting risk and communicating it—as well as the HEARTSMAP tool in its psychosocial as

Health committee  Yes. If I may, Ray et al. published, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a study of Ontario admissions for overdose and self-harm. We have the McCreary Centre reports that I'd like to enter so that you can have access to some larger Ontario data.

Health committee  Certainly I can use it. I did the sound check and they said it was good.

Health committee  Harm reduction is an element that comes first. Certainly we need treatment when it's needed. You need a child who is willing to do treatment, who is in a state of change where treatment will be fruitful. Of course, when things are in crisis, we need acute access to treatment an

Health committee  I'll quickly go and then give Ms. Digout a chance. For me, I care about standards. Many nations have taken the issue of health standards more seriously. In fact, often we borrow from U.K. and Australian guidelines because Canada doesn't have it's own specific.... We provide heal

Health committee  Yes, absolutely. Children are very sensitive to the ways in which.... I would say that the newest generation is much better at not teasing or picking out differences in kids, but kids are still kids, especially in middle school. It makes it very hard. When I think about this, I

Health committee  Thank you so much. This is a question I've thought a lot about. I've been in the online space doing advocacy. Online the amount of disinformation and misinformation is tremendous. I think we have to start really considering the weaponization of disinformation as a threat to Canad

Health committee  It's challenging. What we do and what we don't do obviously impact the outcomes we care about. Many physicians, unfortunately, have chosen to be silent in the face of disinformation. I think disinformation requires us to be active in fighting it, not just by putting out pamphle