Parliament Hill has an opportunity to lead on workplace mental health

From improved communication about employee assistance programs, to more readily available information about problematic substance use, to hearing from people with lived experience like Paul Wernick, there are ways to reshape a workplace culture—even one as entrenched as that of Parliament Hill.
Paul Wernick, pictured at 24 Sussex Dr., with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
OTTAWA—Before I moved to Ottawa from Newfoundland, I thought of Parliament Hill as hallowed halls where laws were passed or a raucous Chamber where barbs were tossed and jabs were parried. It was only after I came to work in the nation’s capital—and had occasion to meet some of the many staffe...

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