The answer is no, Ms. Fry.
Evidence of meeting #56 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #56 for Health in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:35 p.m.
Liberal
Hedy Fry Liberal Vancouver Centre, BC
Madam Chair, you are being fair. You gave other people the ability—
12:35 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Ms. Fry, you're ignoring the chair, and that's not acceptable. Sorry, Ms. Fry, I said no.
To be able to accomplish what we need to accomplish.... To clarify, we're just about to go into a business meeting, which will be in camera, so we don't have the time to start another round. But what you said today has been very helpful.
Basically, just to clarify, it seems to me that you're not against the provinces having the priority, it's just that you're in the second tier right now and you feel you should be in the first tier. Provinces have a chance to make their own pandemic.... But you just want to go to tier one rather than tier two. That's what I've heard all morning.
Everybody around this table appreciates the sacrifice you make and what you do, and we appreciate your coming today. We actually moved our whole agenda so we could have this day. Each one of us appreciates the fact that you've come today, so please go away knowing that your testimony is very important and it will be examined very carefully.
We do have a business meeting. What I'm going to do is suspend for about three minutes. That will give members a chance to shake your hands and say goodbye, and then we will start right at a quarter to one.
Thank you.
[Proceedings continue in camera]