Health committee  Yes, thank you. And yes, it's Dr. Kendall.

Health committee  Sure. I'm Dr. Perry Kendall and I'm the provincial health officer for the province of British Columbia.

Health committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and honourable members of the committee. I thank you for the opportunity to appear on the matter of amending section 34 through Bill C-42. I am the provincial health officer, so I'm the chief medical officer of health for the province of British C

Health committee  No. Let me clarify. I am in favour of quarantine officers at crossing points, because I understand that the international regulations, as proposed, would have a land-based conveyance report somebody who was sick at the border, if they still had that sick person on board—if they h

Health committee  Yes, my understanding is that what we were actually discussing was the requirement for land conveyances crossing the borders to report in advance people who were being transported who may have symptomology of illness, and this is the proposed amendment. My understanding was to re

Health committee  That's right. I'm not sure how many quarantine officers we're talking about here. I was more concerned with the issue of the prior notification of potential illness, which I saw as being of little functional utility in terms of actually identifying serious illness or keeping se

Health committee  It might. You would have to weigh the probability of actually picking up a serious illness and keeping it out of Canada against the inconvenience to passengers in buses and trains who were forced to wait periods of time while the quarantine officers were brought in, and then the

Health committee  Yes, indeed they could, and I think it makes the point that was being made by the doctor from the INSPQ: that our system can track people even if they're asymptomatic. This gentlemen was not coughing. He was presenting a relatively low risk, even though he had a very serious orga

Health committee  Sorry. Were you asking me that question?

Health committee  British Columbia has good working relationships with our colleagues in public health in the contiguous states south of the border. We have regular twice-yearly public health emergency planning meetings, either in B.C. or in Washington, in Portland, Oregon, or in Idaho. We have go

Health committee  I don't know the answer to the no-fly list. I'm sorry.

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  Yes. I could spell my rationale out very simply. I don't think it adds any additional protection to what we currently have, and it has the downside risk of diverting public health resources to an activity that wouldn't have any additional benefit.

Health committee  I'm thinking that if anybody is extremely ill on a bus or a train, they ought to be taken off the train or the bus whenever they go through a city with a health facility before they get to the border; or rather than stopping them at the border, as Dr. Douville-Fradet suggested, m

Health committee  I haven't seen--