Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll defer to Philippe Fournier on that, because that was his study.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've never seen a single interpreter as a patient, and I still have not to this day, although I understand that the nice lady who spoke to me outside will be contacting my office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Before today, I did speak to one of my colleagues who is also a neuro-otologist at the hospital. We're the only two at the hospital there. He has never heard of this problem before, or the problem known as ASI.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Obviously, as I mentioned, we've treated noise damage in the past.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I've seen people who work in air traffic control, obviously military radio, and people in all lines of work exposed to industrial noise, such as the armed forces, police officers and things like that. I've never seen a single person who works in interpretation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I mentioned earlier, you can minimize harm as soon as possible and still carry out research. In my line of work, if it's a matter of convenience versus harm, I always pick no harm with a bit of extra inconvenience. That's a pretty easy decision, to be honest.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't really know the best solution to the problem. However, I will point out that in terms of manpower, part of the issue is that these people are off work and are not getting treatment and they can't get back to work. Probably, like people in most lines of work, they want to

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm going to point to the other side of the equation, which is what happens after they already have symptoms. From what I can tell, these patients don't really get referred to see us. After speaking to interpreters outside in the hallway here before I came in.... They are havin

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The technology is definitely one part of the exposure problem, but any kind of over-ear or in-ear noise or pops, which happen in any kind of remote conferencing, can still expose people to problems, as we see by those who do those other occupations that I mentioned. I know we hav

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Sorry, I timed myself, but I guess I spoke a bit more slowly in the room. As I mentioned, much research needs to be done, especially in this setting of interpreters. As I mentioned, I've treated patients in other fields who suffer with similar symptoms. I was just talking

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it is well shown that there is harm, so I don't think there's too much point in waiting and causing more harm while we're doing studies—the studies won't happen overnight. If there's no convincing reason, say, COVID-19-wise, to continue with hybrid meetings, then I see no

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members, for your invitation to appear today as part of the study on hybrid proceedings. As mentioned, I'm an otolaryngologist and neuro-otologist at the Ottawa Hospital, and assistant professor at the university. My clinical and research fo