Evidence of meeting #4 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Jane Allain  General Counsel, Legal Services, Public Health Agency of Canada
Jim Harlick  Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Communications and Corporate Services, Public Health Agency of Canada
Sonya Norris  Committee Researcher
Nancy Miller Chenier  Committee Researcher

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Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

It's a trade issue, really.

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Conservative

Dave Batters Conservative Palliser, SK

Then...what was the third area, first nations or childhood obesity?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

I believe childhood obesity was the one we were talking about.

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Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

If we have time, we might look into this first nations thing. If there's time to have another meeting, we might end up with four.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Okay.

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Conservative

Dave Batters Conservative Palliser, SK

Could I add one thing, Mr. Chair? I certainly would be in favour of allocating a specific number of meetings to try to complete a study, or whatever--a review--within a certain number of meetings. It would be quite an exhaustive study to go from, say, September until Christmas, and given the possible life of this Parliament, perhaps we wouldn't get through too many topics. I throw that out for members of the committee to consider.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

We'll find in the fall that we may even want to consider further meetings to accomplish what we want to accomplish. Nonetheless, let's leave it there today. We have some pretty good direction and consensus.

We'll adjourn the meeting until after the break.