National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) Act  The House resumed from December 8, 2011, consideration of the motion that Bill C-280, An Act to establish a National Strategy for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI), be read the second time and referred to a committee.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have four petitions to present today. The first one is on CCSVI. There is an absolute difference between my Bill C-280 and the government's position in terms of phase of clinical trials, start date for clinical trials, follow-up care and the need for experts

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, my second petition is regarding CCSVI. The government claims most of what I am asking for in Bill C-280 is already under way. This is absolutely not the case. First, follow-up care remains a problem today and has not been adequately addressed. Second, phase I/II

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition regarding chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency or CCSVI. Over 15,000 procedures have now been performed in over 60 countries. While the government has announced requests for proposals for phase 1 or 2 clinical trials

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present yet another petition on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI. Last week I was honoured to be asked to speak at an international scientific conference on CCSVI. We need evidence-based medicine in Canada and new evidence from

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you. I think you need to do the ultrasound imaging that Sandy has talked about, but you need to do the MR imagining as well. We have discovered that there are many different sources for CCSVI, and not just narrowed vessels. Sometimes there are bad valves, and sometimes

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  This is the date on which we will announce the results of our CCSVI research competition, which was launched early in the new year. On June 14, after the review by a panel of experts--vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, MRI specialists, and neurologists--we

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present this petition on CCSVI. There is real concern among the community that, while the government fast-tracked a drug which was known to cause a fatal brain infection and has now infected 232 people and killed 49 people and another drug which

Health committee  We are continuing to advocate for clinical trials. Again, I assume that part of the $10 million would be certainly expended through a successful CCSVI clinical trial if we're able to have one.

Special Committee on Subsection 223(1) of the Criminal Code   then tell physicians what they can or cannot do? Our own government has said recently, on the issue of CCSVI, that the government should not be dictating guidelines to the medical profession, so then what is the use of this debate in the first place, if nothing that comes out of debate

Health committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I too want to welcome you here. It's always a pleasure to have you appear before the committee. I think your briefings to us are always full of excellent information. I want to go back to a comment my colleague made about the anti-CCSVI

Health committee   of the Canadian public and the Canadian government. That's the first thing. The second thing concerns more specifically CCSVI, which is that we must abide by the principle of clinical research, and get the information, as we're actually proceeding to get it, in a phased fashion.

Health committee  Thank you. Dr. Beaudet, this is a hard question. You know I'm not a combative person; this is difficult. In light of there being an absolutely robust anti-CCSVI campaign, how is CIHR going to guarantee a non-biased study? That's of real concern to the patients.

Health committee   definitive test to diagnose CCSVI. I just want to make that clarification.

Health committee  I want to ask that this group review the latest information from the ISNVD, which is the group that looks at CCSVI. There is a consensus statement on the best way to image.