Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology

First Session, Thirty-eighth Parliament, 2004-05

Chair: The Honourable MICHAEL KIRBY

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Issue No. 28

Forthieth meeting on:

Mental health and mental illness

WITNESSES:

Correctional Service Canada:

Brian Grant, Director, Addictions Research Centre (PEI).

Centre for Addictions Research of B.C., University of Victoria:

Tim Stockwell, Director.

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse:

Michel Perron, Chief Executive Officer;

Dr. John Weekes, Senior Research Analyst.

Responsible Gambling Council, Toronto:

Jon Kelly, Chief Executive Officer.

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health:

Wayne Skinner, Clinical Director, Concurrent Disorders Program.

Addictions Ontario; Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation:

Jeff Wilbee, Executive Director.

Jean Tweed Centre:

Nancy Bradley, Executive Director.

Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs:

David Kelly, Executive Director.

Atlantic Association of Addiction Executives:

Greg Purvis, Chair.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police:

Staff Sergeant Michel Pelletier, Director, Drug Awareness Services.

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

The Honourable Michael Kirby, Chair

The Honourable Wilbert J. Keon, Deputy Chair

and

The Honourable Senators:

*Austin, P.C., (or Rompkey, P.C.), Callbeck, Cochrane, Cook, Cordy, Fairbairn, P.C., Gill, Johnson, LeBreton, *Kinsella, (or Stratton), Pépin, Trenholme Counsell

*Ex officio members

(Quorum 4)