Evidence of meeting #32 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was regulations.
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Conservative
Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB
How does this relate to the section?
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Director, Ethics Office, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Imagine a situation in which a woman or a couple were to say they were prepared to go through one cycle, but no more. Under those circumstances, all the embryos except the ones transferred into the woman would be surplus. That is an example.
I should also tell you the stem cell guidelines require all this to be explained in great detail, including the consequences of not freezing one's embryos.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield
Yes. I was just wondering how it would take place, and you described it. That's fine.
Are there any other questions from the committee? I don't have any others here.
I want to thank you very much for coming in and giving us an overview of the piece of regulations, section 8. It was very interesting. Thank you very much for your presentation and for the questions. Next time we'll have some third-party, shall we say, individuals coming in to address some of the problems of Madame Demers. Thank you very much for your attention.
For the committee's information, we were to look at the steering committee's report. I'm wondering if we should leave that to the next meeting, since three of the steering committee are not here. I'm the only one here, and there's some controversy. Why don't we leave that until next meeting? Is that fair?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.