Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I think you have received my comments in both English and French and they've been distributed to committee members. As Madam Chair has indicated, I'm from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Working with my health portfolio colleagues, we share a common

Health committee  I'll answer that. Thanks. We've known from research evidence and from the surveillance we do in the Public Health Agency of Canada that sodium reduction is an essential component of public health efforts to help keep the Canadian population healthy. I have brought for you an in

Health committee  I do; I have them here with me.

Health committee  They are.

Health committee  Yes, that would be fine.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. My apologies for being a little late in arriving this morning. I was battling the traffic on the Queensway. I'm very pleased to be here this morning from the Public Health Agency of Canada to provide you and the subcommittee members with an over

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you very much. I just want to follow up on the comments you made about the surveillance program. I think they're excellent comments and are very helpful. One of the things that's important to us, of course, is that provinces and territories have jurisdiction over the serv

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  It isn't, but I must defer that to Health Canada. Health Canada is responsible for administration of the Canada Health Act, and I'm from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Sure, I'd be glad to. As you would imagine, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research holds the federal mandate for ensuring that health research across the country is occurring and is supported in an effective way so that it is meeting the needs of Canadians. In particular, i

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Very well said.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  In terms of the timeframe for the development of the surveillance system, there are a couple of things that need to happen and that will happen very shortly in order for us to be more clear on how close we are, and that is the meeting of our scientific advisory committee, which i

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  No, there is not.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I just wanted to say that that's precisely why we are taking care, as we develop the case definition for the autism surveillance program, to ensure that it's scientifically sound and reliable and that we can in fact replicate and use those measures to get a better sense of the tr

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Again, from the point of view of the work that we're involved in, in surveillance, I wanted to stress the point that while we are beginning with autism as a priority for the development of our surveillance program, we are also looking at developmental disabilities more generally.

Health committee  Madam Chair, honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to frame today's discussion on healthy eating and next week's discussion on physical activity. I am going to provide you with an overview of the Government of Canada's healthy living agenda. My colleagues from Health