Traduction de «Canadian G7 Working Group on Economic Measuring Tools » (Anglais → Français) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 864 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to mental health and suicide in the Canadian Forces (CF), including regular forces, reservists and veterans, as well as among Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) veterans: (a) what does history and research show from the First World War (WWI) and the Second World War (WWII), regarding the percentage of Canadian veterans who suffered some degree of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how it might have impacted their ability to (i) hold down jobs, (ii) maintain rela ...[+++]tionships, (iii) overcome substance abuse, (iv) maintain their will to live; (b) how are suicides tracked for CF regular forces, reservists and veterans, including RCMP veterans, (i) has the tracking method changed over time (from 2000 onwards) for any of these groups, including name changes (e.g., suicide versus sudden death) and, if so, how, why and when, (ii) how are suicides tracked among veterans who may not be known to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) and who may be under other types of care (e.g., in hospitals) or in homeless shelters, prisons, etc.; (c) what are the identified gaps in tracking for each of the identified groups and, for each gap, what action items (i) are planned (including predicted start and completion dates, and necessary funding), (ii) are being implemented (including predicted completion date and necessary funding), (iii) have been completed to address the problem; (d) how are suicides investigated for each identified group today and, for each group, for the years 1990 to the present (or years available), (i) what percentage of victims were known to either the Department of National Defense (DND) or VAC prior to the suicide, or to the medical, social-aid or prison system, (ii) what percentage had attempted suicide before, (iii) what percentage suffered from an identified Operational Stress Injury (OSI), including PTSD, anxiety, depression or substance abuse, (iv) what percentage suffered from acquired brain ...

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30. Calls on the Commission to establish a steering committee for IPP as well as working groups in specific areas, such as systems design, economic tools, product environmental lifecycle data and consumption policy; is of the opinion that parallel to this, clear stakeholder procedures and a detailed workplan and timetable for actions, initiatives and implementation foreseen by the Commission should be established; believes, moreover, that a study should be initiated to clarify how and in what way the various tools and instruments considered to promote IPP interact, strengthen and support each other; takes the view that important aspects to be taken into consideration would be measures that enable and motivate individuals as well as compa ...[+++]nies to take account of lifecycle concerns in their decisions, measures that stimulate and reward leaders and measures that force laggards to improve, measures that address immediate challenges as well as long-term objectives;

27. Calls on the Commission to establish a steering committee for IPP as well as working groups in specific areas, such as systems design, economic tools, product environmental lifecycle data and consumption policy; is of the opinion that parallel to this, clear stakeholder procedures and a detailed workplan and timetable for actions, initiatives and implementation foreseen by the Commission should be established; believes, moreover, that a study should be initiated to clarify how and in what way the various tools and instruments considered to promote IPP interact, strengthen and support each other; takes the view that important aspects to be taken into consideration would be measures that enable and motivate individuals as well as compa ...[+++]nies to take lifecycle concerns in their decisions, measures that stimulate and reward leaders and measures that force laggards to improve, measures that address immediate challenges as well as long term objectives;

This principle is long-standing and very fundamental since it is taught in any introductory course in economics. So, we have been very dogmatic and the results of that are obvious in the situation we are facing today (1200) The third building block of a measure that could have been adopted is a job creation policy specifically directed towards the main groups of unemployed Canadians that should be put back to work ...[+++].

I was part of the Working Group on Cultural Policy for the 21st Century, organized by the Canadian Conference of the Arts, and that group recommended—and I can condense this—that the Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Honourable Sheila Copps, continue her efforts to develop broad international consensus with governments of our international partners to adopt measures to affirm cultural sovereignty in Canada and beyond, to secure cultural pluralism in a globalized world, and to harness the powers of new technologies as tools.