Health committee  Actually, what we see is that the children who tend to show more of those patterns of coping successfully have internal strengths—sometimes it's just the genetic lottery, if you will—but more often it's about patterns of extended family, opportunities in their communities to use

Health committee  Thank you for the question. You raise lots of great issues here. What I can tell you is that for younger children, I think there is a bit of an assumption, not that you're making it at all.... You seem very clued into this, and I thank you for that, but there is sometimes an ass

Health committee  Absolutely. I think what we need to do is delve a bit deeper into what the protective factors were or what actually helps a child get through a crisis like this. Lots of funding went out to research studies. Those results will come in over the next year or two, so we don't have a

Health committee  That's a great question. Thank you very much for the question. What we're seeing in other communities is the need for a more coordinated approach. My own work is largely in Drayton Valley, an Albertan community, one of the Canadian communities heavily reliant on oil and gas. Wh

Health committee  I actually don't have a lot of familiarity with the last piece of that. I think that's really a political decision. Hopefully, families are encouraged and the funds do go to what they do, but I will say that in terms of the actual money flowing, what I'm perceiving from my perspe

Health committee  I find it extremely troubling when politicians step beyond their expertise and enter what is the domain of simple science. Where we could actually get really good decisions on scientific merit, I would also encourage those same politicians to take a trip to other countries and ot

Health committee  Thank you very much for the question. I won't necessarily get into the politics of what's being released or not, but what I can say is that we do know that children have taken on a disproportionate negative effect. If we look at depression scores or anxiety from Statistics Canad

Health committee  Definitely. In fact, that's what we look at when we look at patterns of coping or resilience in populations. We look at very specific cultural and contextual needs due to geography, language, cultural heritage and, of course, histories of trauma, whether it's refugees coming into

Health committee  It's more yes than no—yes.

Health committee  I'd like to say a huge thank you, Mr. Chair, for this opportunity. I would like to bring you a little bit into my world, which is the study of the resilience of children. I know that we're going to be experiencing a huge amount of delayed pathology because of COVID. I also want