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Barbara Boraks
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Barbara Boraks
2021-04-13 16:38
Yes. We have a very large youth network across Canada, but that's a sentiment that applies not just to youth but to any sector of precarious work. Arts is another one, actually. There is very strong support for basic income from the arts community.
View Sean Fraser Profile
Lib. (NS)
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2021-04-13 16:56
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I will direct my questions to Margie Grant-Walsh, from Big Brothers Big Sisters, who happens to be just down the road from me here, in Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
The testimony from you and your colleague focused, in part, on the stressors that have been exacerbated by the pandemic for young people in our community. I would hazard to guess that we have talked to some of the same young people.
I remember, in the early days of the pandemic, there was a lot of fear about what this public health emergency might mean. Over the course of the year, people became robbed of their community activities or sports teams at school, their proms, seeing their friends, or experiences in the classroom. You're absolutely right to point out how much this has impacted the mental health and well-being of young people.
We put support towards the Kids Help Phone, I think in late March of last year, because we saw a serious surge in the need for mental health supports for young people.
One of the things I hear about, whenever we talk about telehealth or virtual health, is reservations from the public when they hear about 1-800 lines or seeing somebody through a screen when they may need access to a person. Certainly there are people who will need that in-person care for their mental health supports.
I'm curious, from your experience, whether you can highlight whether these investments in the Kids Help Phone or other similar services can help an organization like yours connect with people in real life?
Margie Grant-Walsh
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Margie Grant-Walsh
2021-04-13 16:58
Thanks, Mr. Fraser.
Actually, they really can. The investments that go toward, for example, the Kids Help Phone have certainly impacted local organizations right across the country. What tends to happen when they get a call is that they then refer to a local agency.
You commented particularly on the increase of isolation and mental health issues. As a matter of fact, we're finding that these kids who have been isolated, particularly in rural areas, really require that intentional mentorship in their lives. Without it, they're really lost.
Here in Pictou County I can comment from my experience. We have no public transportation. There are also connectivity issues in some of the outlying areas. Many of our clients don't have access to mobile devices, whether it's a tablet or a telephone, so of course being able to connect with their mentors has been very difficult.
The other thing we've been seeing, too, is in our schools. Of course, when the pandemic first started, many of the schools were very uncomfortable—we all were, really—not knowing what to expect and how this was going to lay out. Schools were very hesitant at first to let us in. In Pictou County, we are in 19 schools. Multiply that by the 102 agencies in the country. Many of those kids have not had access to their mentors.
We know that 42% of youths said their mentor helped them feel less isolated during the pandemic. We know that 70% of youths who had regular contact with their mentor said it helped them feel less worried or anxious, and 44% of youths engaged with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada reported feelings of depression versus 51% among other youths. We know that having a caring adult in a child's or youth's life really makes a difference.
People sometimes tend to think of us as the “fluffy” organization, but we know that every dollar that is spent toward mentorship programs is reinvested back into the community at 23:1. It's very important.
View Ted Falk Profile
CPC (MB)
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2021-04-13 17:09
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
To all the witnesses, thank you for your presentations here. It has been very interesting listening to the discussion—the questions as well as the comments.
I'd like to talk to Mr. Chater.
In my riding of Provencher, in Manitoba, a lot of parents are talking to me about how their kids feel. One evening I was returning phone calls and talked to one particular father. He said he was completely exasperated. He had a son. He said, “In his group of four of five people, do you know what they're talking about? They're talking about suicide. I am so concerned about where this is all heading.”
I'm sure you're hearing a lot from your frontline people. What is the major concern you're hearing from the boys and girls clubs frontline workers, the folks who actually work with the youth in Canada?
W. Matthew Chater
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W. Matthew Chater
2021-04-13 17:10
I'd be able to speak from the perspective of Big Brothers Big Sisters, and I'd say they're seeing the same, listening to the voices of young people: that despair and not being able to see what the future looks like. Right now, there are so many young people, like many of us, who are just trying to figure out what life looks like beyond this pandemic. It's very challenging, particularly for youth, because the pathways that once existed might not exist in the future. Big Brothers Big Sisters and organizations such as BGC Canada and others really provide those opportunities for young people to see that future and how people are standing beside them and for them.
I'll go back to some of the data Margie shared around how young people are feeling in community, and making sure we continue to put those critical investments into frontline community services.
View Colin Carrie Profile
CPC (ON)
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2021-03-15 17:26
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Given the statements made in WEconomy, it's clear that WE Charity conducted a survey that collected data on voting in the 2011 federal election.
My question is, how did you receive the contact information of these WE alumnae, when many of them would have been underaged kids at the time of the WE Day they attended? I'm curious as to how the data was collected, and by whom. Did you ever contract your data analysis with any third parties that also might do data analysis for political parties, such as Data Sciences, for example?
Marc Kielburger
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Marc Kielburger
2021-03-15 17:26
To the honourable member, the short answer is no on the Data Sciences, or any associated group that would do political data analysis. That was part of [Technical difficulty--Editor] university called Mission Measurement. They ask young people if, because of the program, they're more likely to do many things, including vote, volunteer or give to charity. We never discussed it at the time of asking. We never asked who they voted for. We had no interest in that information.
View Colin Carrie Profile
CPC (ON)
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2021-03-15 17:27
All right.
Will you provide to the committee a copy of the report that Mission Measurement, LLC provided to WE Charity on the project, that Free the Children alumni study?
Craig Kielburger
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Craig Kielburger
2021-03-15 17:27
Absolutely. In fact, we're very proud of the outcomes. More than 80% of our youth alumni continue to volunteer, 79% voted in the last federal election and I believe 83% continue to give to charity. It's such a shame that's coming to an end, those programs in Canadian schools—
Craig Kielburger
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Craig Kielburger
2021-03-15 17:27
Yes, absolutely. It's actually on our website, so anyone can look at the report.
View Steven Blaney Profile
CPC (QC)
In connection with language transfers, it would seem that we now take into account the attraction of English for francophones, particularly for cultural matters.
In your next censuses, will the indicators enable you to measure the likelihood for a young francophone in Quebec to migrate towards the anglophone culture because of their consumption of cultural content? Are you going to do this kind of analysis?
It would seem that such factors are contributing to the decline, in addition to some of the other factors you summarized for us.
Jean-Pierre Corbeil
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Jean-Pierre Corbeil
2021-03-09 19:24
Yes, definitely. If we focus again on the language transfers, an increase in language transfers among younger people has been observed.
We might ask whether these young people, more of whom are attending English-language CEGEPs and universities, tend to be living with English-speaking roommates whose language is that of the institution they are attending.
However, I think that with increasingly diverse data sources at our disposal, including a well-known longitudinal platform in education that enables us to track these students over time and integrate the census data, we will be able to analyze this more thoroughly.
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