Evidence of meeting #54 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was cdr.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Janis Miyasaki  Associate Clinical Director and Chair of the Technology and Therapeutics Assessment Subcommittee, American Academy of Neurology, University of Toronto
Joel Lexchin  Professor, School of Health Policy and Management, York University
David Bougher  Former Member of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Pharmaceutical Issues Committee, As an Individual
Linda Tennant  Former Member of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Pharmaceutical Issues Committee, As an Individual
Louise Binder  Chair, Best Medicines Coalition
Elisabeth Fowler  Vice-President, Health Policy, Ward Health Strategies

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Well, then, just go ahead and do it.

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON

We should just all go.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Well, anybody who wants to should.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

Patricia Davidson Conservative Sarnia—Lambton, ON

When is it?

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Why don't we copy this information and give it around to everybody? Is that fair?

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON

It's June 11 to 13. It's fantastic. It's the one that was in Bangkok two years ago.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB

Are we in session then?

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Yes, we're still in session, and I want to just talk about those things, because I want to get the United Kingdom one.

On this one, we can get the information around to everybody. I guess we have it already. Fair enough.

That's about all we really need to talk about at this part of the meeting. There's no point in going in camera and actually doing the steering committee report, because we're going to be following it generally anyway.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

Steven Fletcher Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia, MB

I can save my comments for the next time.

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

Can I just verbally tell them?

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Yes, okay.

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

I'm putting a notice of motion—Carmen will get it translated—the idea being that there are two health threats that keep being brought up on TV. One is the Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency changing its rules and lowering its standards, according to a report yesterday. The other one is the Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission apparently talking about lowering some standards in its regulations. In my view, this ties in with what we are finding out about the Quarantine Act. So I'm putting a notice of motion that we have one extra meeting and call those two agencies in to explain to us if indeed they are changing regulations or not.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

And we'll debate that at the next meeting. Fair enough?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

Yes.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

There's one other thing here. There's a budget that we could approve if it's unanimous. I know we didn't give notice for it, but it's a budget to pay for the witnesses: $29,000.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON

So moved, Mr. Chair.

(Motion agreed to)

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Thank you.

Madame Gagnon.

5:30 p.m.

Bloc

Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québec, QC

Do we have a meeting on Monday morning?

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Lundi? Yes, we have a meeting. We wanted to have the United Kingdom one, but I got a consensus that it wasn't going to be there.

5:30 p.m.

Bloc

Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québec, QC

That does not work.

I will not be here on Monday. We will be in Geneva with the minister. So I will not be here next week. If you change the program, you have to tell Luc Malo.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Okay, fair enough.

The meeting is adjourned.