Evidence of meeting #58 for Health in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was diseases.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Perry Kendall  Provincial Health Officer, Public Health, British Columbia Ministry of Health
Monique Douville-Fradet  Medical Consultant, Biological, Environmental and Occupational Hazards Directorate, Institut national de santé publique du Québec

4:55 p.m.

NDP

Penny Priddy NDP Surrey North, BC

Thank you.

For some reason this conversation, or the whole discussion, is much bigger than I understand. We're talking about a piece of legislation with wording saying there is a duty to notify the nearest public health officer, or the nearest...whatever it says. It's not that there's to be a quarantine officer at every crossing—not anything like that—just a duty to notify the nearest public health officer, or whatever it says. So why we would feel this need to take it out is a bit beyond me. I am puzzled about why this discussion has grown this big and why we would just not leave it there, since we are not talking about the resources, we're not talking about a quarantine officer, but just about leaving the current wording that there's a duty to notify the nearest person, period.

4:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

All right, that was more of a statement.

4:55 p.m.

NDP

Penny Priddy NDP Surrey North, BC

Sorry, there was a question in it, but it escaped me.

4:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Rob Merrifield

Does anyone want to quickly look at the question on that, or are we fine with it?

I'm not seeing any bites. All right.

We're going to call this part of the meeting over. We want to thank you very much for being here through video conference, Dr. Kendall, as well as Dr. Douville. Thank you for being here and for your presentations.

With that, we'll just have a quick break in our meeting as we go in camera to discuss some of the upcoming report on CDR.

Thank you very much.

[Proceedings continue in camera]