Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Blake. Next for general comments, Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. Desjardins.

Even if it was not a specified program or something that’s already structured. I’m just asking the Minister, would it not make sense to have people that are in remote northern communities who are enduring stress and mood disorders on a frequent basis where they are often in crisis, if they had a professional contact of someone they’d already developed a relationship with to be able to get counselling over the phone, because we know we’re not going to have them in person in our communities?

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort Mr. Beaulieu’s witnesses to the table.

For the record, Mr. Beaulieu, please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In a brief preamble in follow up to some of the discussion today on post-traumatic stress disorder, I myself experienced a traumatic event as a child which has carried over into adulthood. I’m almost 60 years old and I still have claustrophobia because I was in a building that was struck by a tornado when I was a child, and I did not see it coming. I heard it but I did not see it. To this day, I want to see what’s happening around me, and that’s why I don’t like being closed in and that’s why I sit beside the door. No, seriously, these kinds of things, at the time, my...

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. At this time I would like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Bouchard.