[Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Canada's minister of state for public health, was confident about progress on the national consultation on health goals that is expected to report to the first ministers in November. Dr. Bennett said Canadians are ready for improvements and she is looking forward to Canada, in a few years,] realizing Tommy Douglas's original goal of medicare which is to keep Canadians well and not just patch them up when they're sick. ... When a physician says something, people listen. We need your help. |
I think we need to see what the breakdown is, ... Have people backed off a bit from reporting [sexual assault] -- that would be a bad thing -- or is it that [some of] the abusers out there have been identified and dealt with? |
It is a surprise, |
It was 200 Eeyores in the room, going 'No one cares. No one listens. What are we going to do?' |
It worries me that people think having it should make them feel better. |
It's taken us 16 years, but we got there. It feels very, very fabulous, |
Poultry workers move to the top of the list for this upcoming flu shot campaign, ... Poultry workers are there and I don't think we would have seen that before. |
The Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect |
They're obviously pretty committed to getting the $1,200 out the door. |
We cannot deal with things that we're afraid to talk about, ... We actually have to begin to take on the links that we know of between incest and alcohol and drug abuse. This is huge. |
We feel that even though these are alarming in terms of an increase. I think the researchers believe it's an epidemic of reporting, and that's a good thing. |
We have to rebuild our party from the bottom up. |
We need to do everything we can to help in those families with parenting skills, with community support. |
What we're worried about is the quality. Our concern is that so many of those people, because there is no availability of the quality spaces . . . are having to take their second, third or fourth choice, where they can't really be sure that a quality experience is being offered to their children and therefore they're worrying. |