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APPENDIX B: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Dr. Alain Beaudet, President

2016/05/31

16

Department of Health

Keith Conn, Assistant Deputy Minister Regional Operations

   

Dr. Tom Wong, Executive Director Office of Population and Public Health

   

Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Paula Isaak, Assistant Deputy Minister Education and Social Development Programs and Partnerships Sector

   

Daniel Leclair, Director General Community Infrastructure Branch, Regional Operations

   

National Association of Friendship Centres

Yancy Craig, Director Strategic Development

2016/06/02

17

Christopher Sheppard, Vice-President

   

As an individual

Jack Hicks, Adjunct Professor Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan

2016/06/07

18

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Natan Obed, President

   

Chiefs of Ontario

Isadore Day, Ontario Regional Chief

2016/06/09

19

Manitoba Regional Chief Assembly of First Nations

Kenneth Young, Former Regional Chief

   

As an individual

Dr. Cornelia Wieman, Consultant Psychiatrist

2016/06/14

20

As individuals

Adam Akpik

2016/09/23

23

Caroline Anawak

   

Jack I. Anawak

   

David Joanasie

   

As individuals

Hon. Paul Okalik, Member of the Legislative Assembly Constituency of Iqaluit-Sinaa

 

 

Toby Otak

   

Emiliano Qirngnuq

   

Brian Tagalik

   

Peter Williamson

   

Louisa Willoughby

   

Embrace Life Council

David Lawson, President

   

Kimberly Masson, Executive Director

   

Government of Nunavut

Hon. George Hickes, Minister of Health Minister responsible for Suicide Prevention

   

Karen Kabloona, Associate Deputy Minister, Quality of Life Department of Health

   

Shuvinai Mike, Director of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Department of Culture and Heritage

   

National Inuit Youth Council

Maatalii Okalik, President

   

Nunatsiavut Government

Nina Ford, Youth Representative Youth Division

   

Johannes Lampe, President

   

Nunavut Kamatsiaqtut Help Line

Sheila Levy, Executive Director

   

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.

James T. Arreak, Chief Executive Officer Executive Services

   

Jeannie Arreak-Kullualik, Director Department of Social and Cultural Development

   

Qarjuit Youth Council

Alicia Aragutak, President

   

Louisa Yeates, Vice-President

   

As individuals

Michael Chandler, Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology

2016/09/26

24

Christopher Lalonde, Professor University of Victoria, Department of Psychology

   

As an individual

Shawn Matthew Glode

2016/09/28

25

Leave Out Violence Nova Scotia Society

Sarah MacLaren, Executive Director

   

Shurenda Michael, Youth Leader

   

Richard Taylor, Operations Manager

   

Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society

Pamela Glode Desrochers, Executive Director

   

As individuals

Michael DeGagné, President and Vice-Chancellor Nipissing University

2016/10/05

27

Rod McCormick, Professor and Research Chair Thompson Rivers University

   

Ilisaqsivik Society

Jakob Gearheard, Executive Director

   

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health

Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader

   

Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre

Gwen K. Healey, Executive and Scientific Director

   

Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association

Lisa Bourque Bearskin, President

2016/10/17

28

Lindsay Jones, Indigenous Nursing Student

   

First Nations Health Managers Association

Marion Crowe, Executive Director

   

Calvin Morrisseau, Board of Directors, Executive and Ontario Representative

   

Assembly of First Nations

Will Landon, National Youth Council Representative Ontario

2016/10/19

29

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

Ed Connors, Director

   

Jennifer Ward, Director Survivors Chair

   

Mental Health Commission of Canada

Louise Bradley, President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

Ed Mantler, Vice-President Programs and Priorities

   

As individuals

Amy Bombay, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry

2016/10/24

30

John Haggarty, Professor / Chief of Psychiatry Northern Ontario School Medicine / St. Joseph's Care group

   

Laurence J. Kirmayer, Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University Director, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital

   

Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay

Greta Visitor, Assistant Executive Director Miyupimaatisiiuun Regional Services

2016/10/26

31

Weeneebayko Area Health Authority

Leo Ashamock (Loone), Chairman

   

Deborah Hill, Vice-President of Clinical Services and Chief Nursing Executive

   

Aboriginal Life in Vancouver Enhancement Society

Scott Clark, Executive Director

2016/11/02

32

As individuals

Sam George

   

Cody Kenny

   

Gertrude Pierre

   

Yvonne Rigsby-Jones

   

Ray Thunderchild

   

British Columbia Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Eric Klapatiuk, President Provincial Aboriginal Youth Council

   

Cheslatta Carrier Nation

Mavis Benson, Member

   

Deh Gah Got'ie First Nations

Joachim Bonnetrouge, Chief

   

First Nations Health Authority

Shannon McDonald, Deputy Chief Medical Officer

 

 

Patricia Vickers, Director Mental Wellness

   

Métis Nation British Columbia

Cassidy Caron, Minister, Métis Youth British Columbia Provincial Youth Chair

   

Tanya Davoren, Director of Health

   

Provincial Health Services Authority

Cassandra Blanchard, Program Assisstant Indigenous Health

   

Gabriella Emery, Project Manager Indigenous Health

   

Department of Health

Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister

2016/11/16

34

Sony Perron, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister First Nations and Inuit Health Branch

   

Hon. Jane Philpott, Minister of Health

   

Native Women's Association of Canada

Lynne Groulx, Executive Director

   

Amy Nahwegahbow, Senior Manager Partner for Engagement and Knowledge Exchange

   

Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations

Susan Bobbi Herrera, Chief Executive Officer

2017/02/07

42

Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations

Heather Bear, Fourth Vice-Chief

   

Métis Nation of Alberta

Sylvia Johnson, Co-Minister of Health, Children and Youth

   

Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

Derek Joseph Nepinak, Grand Chief

2017/02/09

43

Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat

Candice Paul, Chief, St. Mary’s First Nation, and Co-Chair, Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat

   

Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc.

Sheila North Wilson, Grand Chief

   

Representative for Children and Youth

Bernard Richard, Representative, British Columbia

 

 

Thunderbird Partnership Foundation

Carol Hopkins, Executive Director

   

Ojibways of Onigaming

Kathy Kishiqueb, Chief

2017/02/14

44

Pimicikamak Okimawin

Catherine Merrick, Chief

   

Kendall Robinson, Youth Councillor

   

First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada

Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director

2017/02/16

45

Indigenous Health Alliance

Dr. Alika Lafontaine, Collaborative Team Lead

   

Mamawetan Churchill River Health Region

Dr. James Irvine, Medical Health Officer

   

Denise Legebokoff, Director Mental Health and Addictions

   

David Watts, Executive Director Integrated Health

   

Office of the Child and Youth Advocate Alberta

Del Graff, Child and Youth Advocate